Halo 3: ODST tops UK charts
Professor Layton in at two.
Halo 3: ODST is top of the All-Formats Top 40 chart this week following its 22nd September launch on Xbox 360.
Tuesday was an unusual slot, but apparently that didn't put off shoppers, with 64 per cent of the game's first-week sales going through in its first 24 hours.
According to data compilers Chart-Track, however, the Rookie hasn't quite got the beating of the Master Chief, whose last outing in Halo 3 enjoyed the fourth-best first-week sales for a single-format release in recorded history. ODST managed 12th.
Elsewhere, Professor Layton and Pandora's Box puzzled nobody by taking second spot ahead of last week's number one, Need for Speed: Shift. Layton's last game, The Curious Village, saw its sales go up by 36 per cent, too - enough to bump it to 18th.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 was another new arrival at seven, while NCsoft's ambitious MMORPG Aion swept in at 11, making it the highest-placed PC exclusive.
Further down there was a new entry for MySims Agents at 16, and re-entries for Madden (32), the immutable LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (33) and Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades (36).
With apologies to games like Risen and Beatorator, next week's number one will be FIFA 10. See this week's top 40 below.
| This Week | Last Week | Title | Platform(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New entry | Halo 3: ODST | Xbox 360 |
| 2 | New entry | Professor Layton and Pandora's Box | DS |
| 3 | 1 | Need for Speed: Shift | PC, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360 |
| 4 | 2 | Guitar Hero 5 | PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 5 | 5 | Wii Sports Resort | Wii |
| 6 | 4 | Batman: Arkham Asylum | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 7 | New entry | Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 8 | 3 | Colin McRae: DiRT 2 | DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 9 | 6 | WET | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 10 | 9 | Wii Fit | Wii |
| 11 | New entry | Aion | PC |
| 12 | 13 | Mario Kart Wii | Wii |
| 13 | 7 | The Beatles: Rock Band | PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 14 | 16 | Quantum of Solace | DS, PC, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 15 | 18 | Call of Duty: World at War | PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS |
| 16 | New entry | MySims Agents | Wii |
| 17 | 38 | Wii Play | Wii |
| 18 | 23 | Professor Layton and the Curious Village | DS |
| 19 | 15 | Mini Ninjas | DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 20 | 11 | IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey | DS, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360 |
| 21 | 22 | Grand Theft Auto IV | Xbox 360, PS3, PC |
| 22 | 17 | Ashes Cricket 2009 | PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 23 | 10 | Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 | PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 24 | 8 | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | Xbox 360, PS3, PC, DS |
| 25 | 19 | Far Cry 2 | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 26 | 12 | Fight Night Round 4 | PS3, Xbox 360 |
| 27 | 14 | Championship Manager 2010 | PC |
| 28 | 20 | LEGO Batman | DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 29 | 21 | Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training | DS |
| 30 | 25 | Guitar Hero: World Tour | Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii |
| 31 | 24 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 32 | Re-entry | Madden NFL 10 | PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 33 | Re-entry | LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga | DS, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 34 | 36 | SingStar: Motown | PS2, PS3 |
| 35 | 30 | Mario Kart DS | DS |
| 36 | Re-entry | Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades | DS |
| 37 | 33 | Sonic Unleashed | PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 38 | 26 | SEGA Superstars Tennis | DS, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
| 39 | 29 | FIFA 09 | PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS |
| 40 | 31 | The Sims 3 | PC |