UK Sales Chart – Week ending 7th March

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Sega masses its army and pushes Killzone 2 from the top spot with Empire: Total War becoming the first PC-exclusive No.1 since Football Manager 2008 (also a Sega game) back in October 2007.

1. Empire: Total War (Creative Assembly)
2. Killzone 2 (Guerrilla Games)
3. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
4. Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. (Ubisoft Romania)
5. Halo Wars (Ensemble Studios)
6. Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Level 5)
7. Street Fighter IV (Capcom)
8. FIFA 09 (EA Canada)
9. Call of Duty: World at War (Treyarch)
10. Ben 10: Alien Force (Monkey Bar Games)
11. Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (Backbone)
12. Silent Hill: Homecoming (Double Helix)
13. Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
14. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
15. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
16. Disney’s Bolt (Altron)
17. Guitar Hero: World Tour (Vicarious Visions)
18. Need for Speed: Undercover (EA Black Box)
19. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward)
20. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)

This latest installment in the highly-acclaimed Total War series is the fastest-selling so far, recording almost twice as many sales in its launch week than either Rome: Total War or Medieval II: Total War, and being the only game in the franchise to reach No.1 in the All Formats chart.

Sales of Sony’s Killzone 2 are down 58% on last week, but are still only 1600 units behind Sega’s chart-topper. Nintendo are not far behind as Wii Fit enjoys a 31% surge in sales, pushing it up one place to No.3. So Ubisoft has to settle for Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. debuting at No.4, being the second best-selling game on both Xbox 360 and PS3 this week.

The best-selling 360 game this week was Halo Wars, which slipped three places to No.5 thanks to a 54% drop in sales. Meanwhile, Professor Layton gets pushed down a place to No.6 despite a 12% increase in sales.

Previous No.1’s hold the next three spots as Street Fighter IV drops 59% of sales and four places to No.7, while FIFA 09 and Call of Duty: World at War both drop 7% in sales and one place in the charts, down to No.8 and No.9 respectively.

The only other new release this week is the re-release of Mario Power Tennis with flashy ‘New Play Control’ on the Wii, but this fails to make the Top 20, sitting at No.21.

All info provided by Chart-Track