Need For Speed Steers Clear of Challengers
EA's racer is on top of the UK charts for a second week.
The Need for Speed series has done a good job of dominating sales during the tail end of the last few years, and by the looks of things it might be very similar this year. For the second week in a row, Need for Speed: Carbon grabbed the top spot on the UK sales chart.
But it wasn't simple. EA's new urban racer edged ahead of two newcomers - WWE SmackDown Vs Raw 2007, which opened stronger than last year's entry, and Call of Duty 3 for the Xbox 360.
New games are becoming more of a regular occurrence, but they're not all doing as well. Vivendi brought its top-rated PC shooter F.E.A.R. to Xbox 360 this week, but it barely squeezed into the Top 20.
Nintendo had a couple new Pokémon games this week - one for the DS and one for the Game Boy Advance. These are not the long-awaited full follow-ups to the previous main games in the series, which perhaps explains why neither game did particularly well.
The Top 10 games for the week ending 11 November, as determined by Chart Track, are below:
- Need For Speed: Carbon (EA)
- WWE SmackDown Vs Raw 2007 (THQ)
- Call Of Duty 3 (Activision)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (Konami)
- FIFA 07 (EA)
- The Sims: Pets (EA)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar)
- Lego Star Wars: The Original Trilogy (LucasArts)
- Medieval II: Total War (Sega)
- Canis Canem Edit (Rockstar)
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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