Medal of Honor Battles for Top Spot
New releases can't shift EA's war-game from the premiere position on the UK chart.
It was a bad week for new releases as the incumbents proved overwhelming in their dominance of gamers' affections.
Medal of Honor makes it two weeks in a row on topEA's latest kill-'em-up, Medal of Honor: European Assault, helped itself to another week at the top, holding off THQ's dynamic duo of the rejuvenated Destroy All Humans! and the ad-boosted Juiced.
The only new title in the top 10 was Cricket 2005, which no doubt capitalized on the current tour playing out on the pitches of Britain. Activision's multiplatform movie tie-in, Madagascar, suffered in its debut weekend, likely because the film has yet to hit British screens.
New DS titles Goldeneye: Rogue Agent and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory also failed to crack the top of the chart, and with the debacle that was the recent Indianapolis Grand Prix still fresh in their minds, race fans left Formula 1 05 sitting on the shelves.
Below are the top 10 games in the UK for the week ending 2 July, as determined by Chart Track:
- Medal Of Honor: European Assault (EA)
- Destroy All Humans! (THQ)
- Juiced (THQ)
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar)
- Cricket 2005 (EA)
- Battlefield 2 (EA)
- Tekken 5 (Namco)
- Lego Star Wars (Eidos)
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (LucasArts)
- Batman Begins (EA)
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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