UK Charts: Easter rundown
Pandora Tomorrow holds firm, good news and bad for Acclaim
In spite of few new releases, sales were up across all formats for the week ending April 10th thanks to strong, second wind in the Easter shopping spree - two weeks ago saw the first wave followed by a lull last week.
Ubisoft is still holding the fort at number 1 on the ELSPA/ChartTrack All Formats chart, with Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. Aside from a little position shuffling and GTA:Vice City briefly reacquainting itself with the leader board at number 10, the only big mover in the top 10 is the new entry of Acclaim's World Championship Rugby for PS2 and Xbox.
The only other new entries this week are Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (PC/GBA) at number 23 and The Cat In The Hat (PS2/PC/Xbox/GBA) at 36. No surprises at their rankings. The big surprise has to the Acclaim's Alias. The title barely penetrated the Xbox chart at number 17 and made no appearance in PS2 or the All Formats listings. Bad news for a game whose licence must have cost a pretty penny. For Acclaim's sake, let's hope that post-Easter trade-in frenzy sees a change in the title's fortunes.
Notable "uppers" are Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex jumping moving from 21 to 12 and The Sims from 31 to 16. The "downers" are Battlefield Vietnam and SOCOM 2 sliding from 16 to 33 and 18 to 34 respectively. The biggest traffic this week comes in the shape of re-entries, counting five in all. Team17's Worms 3D redeploys its troops at 21, Mafia is back at 27, Eye Toy: Groove prances in at 32, Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets reappears at 35 and SSX 3 lands at 39.
See you next week for the post-Easter update.
Ubisoft is still holding the fort at number 1 on the ELSPA/ChartTrack All Formats chart, with Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. Aside from a little position shuffling and GTA:Vice City briefly reacquainting itself with the leader board at number 10, the only big mover in the top 10 is the new entry of Acclaim's World Championship Rugby for PS2 and Xbox.
The only other new entries this week are Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (PC/GBA) at number 23 and The Cat In The Hat (PS2/PC/Xbox/GBA) at 36. No surprises at their rankings. The big surprise has to the Acclaim's Alias. The title barely penetrated the Xbox chart at number 17 and made no appearance in PS2 or the All Formats listings. Bad news for a game whose licence must have cost a pretty penny. For Acclaim's sake, let's hope that post-Easter trade-in frenzy sees a change in the title's fortunes.
Notable "uppers" are Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex jumping moving from 21 to 12 and The Sims from 31 to 16. The "downers" are Battlefield Vietnam and SOCOM 2 sliding from 16 to 33 and 18 to 34 respectively. The biggest traffic this week comes in the shape of re-entries, counting five in all. Team17's Worms 3D redeploys its troops at 21, Mafia is back at 27, Eye Toy: Groove prances in at 32, Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets reappears at 35 and SSX 3 lands at 39.
See you next week for the post-Easter update.
Companies:
Acclaim Ubisoft
Games: Alias Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Games: Alias Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
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config 13 Apr 2004 19:18
1/2
Ouch! Acclaim really must be reeling from these figures. Somebody head will surely roll for this. I don't watch the show - is it any good, or rather, was it any good? Has the game bombed because the TV show has run dry, or is it just a s**t game?
Still, they can fall back on the success of their rugger sim. Yawn.
Still, they can fall back on the success of their rugger sim. Yawn.
Falien 14 Apr 2004 06:54
2/2
That'll teach them that they won't get away with just a pretty lead character, there has to be a game in there as well, preferably one that doesn't ape others that much.
Same goes for Rogue Ops...
Same goes for Rogue Ops...