UK games chart: Need for Speed still drives demand

Posted on 3 Feb 2005 at 14:18

Now in its eleventh week in the charts, Need For Speed: Underground 2 continues to hold pole position in this week's ELSPA UK games chart.

The EA racing game is still holding off Take 2's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (now in its fourteenth week in the charts), with the movie spin-off The Incredibles resting in third place. The only change in the top five - as before - is Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 4 swapping fourth and fifth place with EA's FIFA 2005.

In other words, very little movement in the long shadow of Christmas, for which all the major games were launched.

The only moves of note are EA's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 slipping down to 15 from last week's 10, and Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 haunting the lower reaches of the top twenty...

Here is the all-format Top 20 in full (number of weeks in chart in brackets), for the week ending 29 January (full-price games):

1 Need For Speed: Underground 2 (11)
2 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (14)
3 The Incredibles (12)
4 Pro Evolution Soccer 4 (16)
5 FIFA 2005 (17)
6 Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (9)
7 Football Manager 2005 (13)
8 Call of Duty: Finest Hour (9)
9 Halo 2 (12)
10 Lord of The Rings - The Third Age (13)
11 Half-Life 2 (11)
12 WWE Smackdown! Vs Raw (12)
13 The Urbz: Sims In The City (21)
14 Colin McRae Rally 2005 (14)
15 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (19)
16 The Sims 2 (20)
17 Star Wars: Battlefront (19)
18 Lord of The Rings - Battle Middle Earth (8)
19 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 (2)
20 The Getaway: Black Monday (11)