This week's GameFly video game rental charts for North America, specifically relating to games rented via the games-by-mail service for the week ending October 10th, show popularity over multiple game formats.
The overall all-formats charts continues to see Activision's multi-platform
Ultimate Spider-Man sitting happily atop a skyscraper in #1, but Ubisoft's Xbox-exclusive
Far Cry: Instincts blasts its way in to #2, and Activision's second Marvel-licensed title,
X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse, hang around at #3.
Funnily enough, the Xbox charts completely replicate the all-formats top three, with
Ultimate Spider-Man,
Far Cry: Instincts, and
X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse topping the most-rented Xbox games in that order. However, for the PlayStation 2,
Ultimate Spider-Man continues at the top spot, but Sucker Punch's continuation of the
Sly franchise,
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves sneaks in to the second spot, and
X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse makes it into #3, continuing its success.
As for the allegedly sputtering GameCube, its raft of exclusive titles continue to provide some significant interest, with
Mario Superstar Baseball climbing back up to #1, closely followed by a new denizen of the evergreen franchise,
Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, with Kuju's distinctly military
Battalion Wars chiming in at #3.
Of course, for the Game Boy Advance it's business as usual, yet again, with
Dragon Ball GT: Transformation still #1, and
Pokémon Emerald continuing to hang out at #2, but the banana-tastic
DK: King of Swing chest-beating its way up to third spot. The DS sees much bigger change, with Konami's long awaited
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow blasting its way in at the top spot, closely followed by last week's top game,
Trace Memory, and then by Atlus' quirky surgery simulator
Trauma Center: Under the Knife.
Finally, to the PSP, and as you can see, the chart is entirely static this week, with the Electronic Arts football perennial
Madden NFL 06 at #1, followed by EA's crashspectacular
Burnout Legends at #2 and the clammy grip of Konami and Backbone's
Death Jr. at #3. Can anything dislodge the PSP trifecta?
