As predicted, September has proven to be a quiet period for new releases on the North American PC market, with the only new titles in the top ten being expansion packs.
The Sims 2 Nightlife has crashed straight into the number one spot, while the
EverQuest expansion
Depths of Darkhollow has beaten the
EverQuest II equivalent
Desert of Flames in the rankings, with the latter charting at only number eleven. Sandwiched between these two was real-time strategy expansion
Winter Assault.
Outside of the top ten, the expanded version of the year-old Xbox classic
Fable: The Lost Chapters could only manage to get as high as number fourteen, while compilation
SimCity 4 Deluxe entered at number nineteen.
With more significant titles likely to appear in the October chart, such as
Black & White 2,
The Movies and
F.E.A.R., the PC still has a reasonable line-up of titles for Christmas, even if forthcoming games such as
Civilization IV and
Age of Empires III do not quite have the massive visibility of last year’s
Half-Life 2.
| TM | LM | Title | Publisher |
| 1 | NE | The Sims 2 Nightlife | EA |
| 2 | 2 | World of WarCraft | Vivendi |
| 3 | 3 | Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 | Atari |
| 4 | 1 | Battlefield 2 | EA |
| 5 | 4 | Guild Wars | NCsoft |
| 6 | 5 | Dungeon Siege II | Microsoft |
| 7 | 8 | The Sims Deluxe | EA |
| 8 | 6 | The Sims 2 | EA |
| 9 | NE | EverQuest: Depths of Darkhollow | SOE |
| 10 | NE | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War - Winter Assault | THQ |
The NPD Group
