UK Charts: Madagascar Not Out at the top
It was a good first innings for Codemasters this week as Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 batted its way up to the top of the Xbox chart in the UK, but Activision's film licensed Madagascar held on to the All-Format top spot.
It was a good first innings for Codemasters this week as Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 batted its way up to the top of the Xbox chart in the UK, but Activision's film licensed Madagascar held on to the All-Format top spot.
Activision's focus on summer movie licenses continued to pay dividends elsewhere as Fantastic Four jumped five places to number three, leapfrogging Medal Of Honor: European Assault (no change at four, Destroy All Humans (down three to five), Cricket 2005 (no change at six), and Juiced (down four to seven).
Wrapping up the rest of this week's Top 10, GTA San Andreas drops one place to number eight, Lego Star Wars remains at number nine while the critically acclaimed God of War drops five places to number ten, continuing its slightly disappointing showing in terms of UK sales.
Elsewhere in a largely static chart, Take Two notched up a new entry at No.16 (No.13 PS2 chart) with release of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory; yet another summer release that dovetails perfectly with the release of a blockbuster movie. The release of the Xbox version of Sid Meier's Pirates pushed the swashbuckling title back up to No.38 in the All Formats (No.7 Xbox),
In terms of how the recent crop of new releases has fared, Tekken 5 continued to punch its weight at No.14, Batman Begins dropped four places to No.23,
Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack dipped nine places to No.26, Killer 7 disappointingly sank thirteen places to No.28, while Formula One also dropped thirteen places to No.29.
Next week is unlikely to see many significant changes near the top of the chart, with Worms 4 Mayhem being the only major new release appearing in stores this week.