FIFA Street Outruns Midnight Club

EA's street-smart football game stretches its winning streak to four weeks.

It's hip, it's cool, and it's filled with oodles of customisable cars, but that still wasn't enough for Rockstar's lifestyle driving game Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition to outpace the arcade football antics of FIFA Street, which made it four weeks in a row on top of the UK charts.

Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition wasn't the only new game on the charts though; joining it was Sega's World Snooker Championship 2005, which benefited from its association with the ongoing tournament in Sheffield to debut at No. 8. Sega also released Matrix Online, a massively multiplayer online game set in the jade-tinged Matrix universe, but sales weren't what the company would have hoped for - no doubt at least partly due to the dilution of the franchise at the hands of the less enthusiastically received Matrix movie sequels.

Also back in the charts is World of Warcraft. Blizzard's massively popular online RPG had been out of stock for a while and was going for over £100 on online auction sites, but the return to stores means more people online and more eBay sellers in tears.

Below are the 10 best performing games in the UK for the week ending 16 April, as determined by Chart Track:

1. FIFA Street (EA)
2. Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (Rockstar)
3. Doom 3 (Activision)
4. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (Ubisoft)
5. Gran Turismo 4 (Sony)
6. Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30 (Ubisoft)
7. World Of Warcraft (VU Games)
8. World Snooker Championship 2005 (Sega)
9. The Sims 2: University (EA)
10. Timesplitters: Future Perfect (EA)

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games