God of War III takes number 1 in UK chart
New entries to top 20 include Metro 2033, Dragon Age, Tiberian Twilight
Sony's God of War III has shot to number one in the UK all-formats chart this week, out-selling its PS2 predecessor by 2.65 copies to 1.
The title nudged last week's top selling title, Final Fantasy XIII, into third position, with FFXIII seeing an 80 per cent drop in sales on the former week.
Meanwhile, EA's Battlefield: Bad Company 2 held onto its number two position, just 2000 sales away from God of War III.
Ubisoft's Just Dance retained top five status for another week, and Heavy Rain slid three places to number seven.
THQ entered the top ten with Metro 2033, which made its debut at number five.
EA had two new releases in the chart - Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening at 11, and Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight’ at 12. While Capcom's MotoGP 09/10 charted just out of the top 20 at 21.
The full UK top 20 for the week ending March 20 is as follows:
- 01 God of War III
- 02 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- 03 Final Fantasy XIII
- 04 Just Dance
- 05 Metro 2033
- 06 Wii Fit Plus
- 07 Heavy Rain
- 08 Wii Sports Resort
- 09 Sonic & SEGA: All Stars Racing
- 10 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- 11 Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
- 12 Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
- 13 FIFA 10
- 14 Ben 10: Alien Force - Vilgax Attacks
- 15 New Super Mario Bros Wii
- 16 Aliens vs Predator
- 17 Bioshock 2
- 18 Forza Motorsport 3
- 19 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game
- 20 LEGO Batman: The Videogame