Top of this week's main chart we find Electronic Art's latest cross-platform, cash-in hogwash Medal Of Honor: Rising Sun, holding on to the top spot for the third consecutive week since entering the charts in week 48. A rather astounding accomplishment taking the quality of the game into consideration (or lack thereof, grumph).
In second and third we have Need For Speed: Underground and FIFA 2004, respectively, solidifying EA's already massive market share and worrying mass-market appeal. EA also holds on to fifth place with Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (review imminent), ninth with their latest Harry Potter outing Quidditch Cup and finally seventeenth place with Total Club Manager 2004. The console-spesific charts are also obviously dominated by EA multi-platform titles, with all of the titles from the All Software chart included in all home console charts. We'd like to think their selling supremacy is largely due to releasing pretty much all their games on all home of the consoles as well as either the PC or GBA, and, well, largely - it is. Still, there's no hiding that the amount of appeal many of EA's games have to the casual teenager is quite big.
What with Ubi Soft's positive line-up this holiday season we'd not only be glad to see at least 2 or 3 of their releases on the chart, we'd bloody expect it. XIII (review coming soon) desperately cohering to twentieth place is a dissapointing sight, to say the least. Where did Ubi's just-released action adventure Beyond Good & Evil and the stunning Prince Of Persia: Sands of Time go (the latter clinching onto the bottom of the PS2-only chart, though), and where's Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 hibernating? Simultaneously, we've got Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in tenth, possibly the strongest contender for this year's worst game. Oh, the cynicism.
Elsewhere, Sierra-developed GTA-clone The Simpsons: Hit And Run falls down one spot to fourth whilst Activision's True Crime: Streets of LA goes one up to comfortably switch places with in-house buddy Tony Hawk's Underground.
Below, currently in eighth place, Finding Nemo continues its steady mid-table braze in its eleventh week on the chart. EyeToy: Play's selling success doesn't seem to stop either, though this week it falls down two places to eleventh in its twentyfourth week on the chart. Max Payne 2 (review up soon) jumps from twentieth to twelvth in its second week around, with long-timer Gran Turismo 3, Dance: UK and 7.9'er Mario Kart: Double Dash!! in the following three places.
Finally, WWE Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain occupies eighteenth place just above what I personally regard as the best soccer game out there, Pro Evolution Soccer 3.
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