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The UK sales charts have seen further movement this week, in what has been an unusually busy month of releases. Criterion and EA’s Black, which has generally recei...

David Jenkins, Blogger

February 28, 2006

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The UK sales charts have seen further movement this week, in what has been an unusually busy month of releases. Criterion and EA’s Black, which has generally received more favorable reviews in UK than in the U.S., has entered the charts straight in at number one, closely followed by Codemasters’ latest entry in the TOCA Race Driver series. The rest of the top ten has proven largely static, although in the case of Sony's Shadow of the Colossus, this demonstrates continued, and unexpected, demand for a game that was previously assumed to have only a limited appeal in the UK. The only other new entry in the top forty is Codemasters’ massively multiplayer online role-playing game RF Online at number eighteen – a surprisingly high entry for the Korean developed title in a market usually resistant to the genre, and further proof that gaming tastes in the UK are perhaps not as narrow as previously assumed, given the right marketing impetus.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Formats

Weeks

1

NE

Black

EA

PS2/Xb

1

2

NE

TOCA Race Driver 3

Codemasters

PS2/Xb/PC

1

3

3

Need for Speed: Most Wanted

EA

All Formats

14

4

1

Shadow of the Colossus

Sony

PS2

2

5

2

Star Wars: Empire at War

Activision

PC

2

6

6

FIFA 06

EA

All Formats

22

7

5

The Sims 2

EA

All Formats

67

8

9

Pro Evolution Soccer 5

Konami

PS2/Xb/PC/PSP

19

9

10

Chicken Little

BVG

PS2/Xb/GC/PC/GBA

3

10

7

Torino 2006

2K Sports

PS2/Xb/PC

5

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2006 ELSPA (UK) Ltd

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David Jenkins

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David Jenkins ([email protected]) is a freelance writer and journalist working in the UK. As well as being a regular news contributor to Gamasutra.com, he also writes for newsstand magazines Cube, Games TM and Edge, in addition to working for companies including BBC Worldwide, Disney, Amazon and Telewest.

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