Assassin's Creed Resists New Game Rush

Ubisoft's Crusades game tops all comers, including the new Need For Speed.

It's nearly Christmas and that means publishers are emptying their warehouses, finally releasing all the games they've been talking up over the past year and beyond. Several of them arrived this past weekend, but none had the goods to top Ubisoft's stealthy action game Assassin's Creed.

That's doubly impressive considering that among the new games debuting over the weekend was Need For Speed Pro Street, the latest game in a series that has gone straight to the top of the chart with each of its last two instalments.

Other new games arriving in the UK were Microsoft and BioWare's space-bound RPG Mass Effect for the Xbox 360 and Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock, which failed to make the sort of splash here that it made in the US last month. In fact, the best-selling version of the game, on the Xbox 360, only managed to come in at No. 15 on the Individual Formats chart, which considers each version of each game separately.

The Top 20 games across all formats for the week ending 24 November, as determined by Chart Track, are below:

1. Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
2. Need For Speed: Pro Street (EA)
3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
4. The Simpsons Game (EA)
5. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
6. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami)
7. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
8. WWE SmackDown Vs Raw 2008 (THQ)
9. FIFA 08 (EA)
10. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision)
11. High School Musical: Sing It! (Disney)
12. Mass Effect (Microsoft)
13. More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
14. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo)
15. Ratatouille (THQ)
16. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (Eidos)
17. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts)
18. Wii Play with remote (Nintendo)
19. Halo 3 (Microsoft)
20. Cooking Mama (505)

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo