UK games chart: Brian Lara tops the batting charts

Posted on 3 Aug 2005 at 11:49

Brian Lara and his International Cricket 2005 tops this week's ELSPA UK games chart.

In its second week in the top twenty, Codemaster's cricket game for the PC, PS2 and Xbox knocks Madagascar back a place. The multi-format movie spin-off slips down to number two, while another Activision movie spin-off, Fantastic 4 - the multi-format comic book hero game - stays put at number three.

Talking of films, the biggest climber is Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, up from 15 to number five. This is Take-Two's adventure game for the PC, PS2, Xbox, GBA and GameCube.

The only new entry this week is at the foot of the chart - Codemaster's Worms 4: Mayhem. The worm-versus-worm gameplay is available in PC, PS2 and Xbox formats.

Getting format-specific, Battlefield 2 keeps on keeping hold of the number one spot for PC games, but Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 muscles out Madagascar at the top of the PS2 pile and stays at the crease to top the Xbox chart.

Here is the all-format Top 20 in full (number of weeks in chart in brackets), for the week ending 30 July (full-price games):

1 Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 (2)
2 Madagascar (5)
3 Fantastic 4 (3)
4 Medal of Honor: European Assault (7)
5 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2)
6 Destroy All Humans! (6)
7 Cricket 2005 (5)
8 Juiced (7)
9 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (40)
10 Lego Star Wars (15)
11 Star Wars Ep 3: Revenge of The Sith (13)
12 God of War (4)
13 Battlefield 2 (6)
14 Tekken 5 (6)
15 Need For Speed: Underground 2 (36)
16 Championship Manager 5 (20)
17 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (18)
18 Gran Turismo 4 (21)
19 Half-Life 2 (33)
20 Worms 4: Mayhem (1)