The UK Charts: An Empire Turns Into a Killzone

Alas, Killzone 2, you could not compete with... Total War.

Yes, Sony's long-heralded shooter has been knocked from the top spot and down to Number 2 by SEGA's new entry of the real time strategy persuasion, Empire: Total War, after but a single week.

Also new to the Chart is Tom Clancy's HAWX from Ubisoft. The air combat game débuts at Number 4, one spot above Halo Wars, dislodged from Number 2 to Number 5.

There's not a lot of movement elsewhere in the Top 10. The only other game to move more than a single place in the Top 10 is Capcom's Street Fighter IV, which has rolled down from Number 3 to Number 7.

The only other new entry to grace the Top 40 is Nintendo's re-worked-for-Wii GameCube title, Mario Power Tennis. It's served up into the Number 23 spot.

You can see the Top 10 in full below (last week's entries are in brackets).

(NE) - 1 - Empire: Total War - Sega.
(1) - 2 - Killzone 2 - Sony.
(4) - 3 - Wii Fit - Nintendo.
(NE) - 4 - Tom Clancy’s HAWX - Ubisoft.
(2) - 5 - Halo Wars - Microsoft.
(5) - 6 - Professor Layton and the Curious Village - Nintendo.
(3) - 7 - Street Fighter IV - Capcom.
(7) - 8 - FIFA '09 - EA.
(8) - 9 - Call of Duty: World at War - Activision Blizzard.
(9) - 10 - Ben 10: Alien Force - D3P.

^{Source: GfK Chart-Track via MCV}