God of War III takes number 1 in UK chart

March 22nd, 2010, 21:53 Posted By: wraggster

Sony's God of War III has shot to number one in the UK all-formats chart this week, out-selling its PS2 predecessor by 2.65 copies to 1.

The title nudged last week's top selling title, Final Fantasy XIII, into third position, with FFXIII seeing an 80 per cent drop in sales on the former week.

Meanwhile, EA's Battlefield: Bad Company 2 held onto its number two position, just 2000 sales away from God of War III.

Ubisoft's Just Dance retained top five status for another week, and Heavy Rain slid three places to number seven.

THQ entered the top ten with Metro 2033, which made its debut at number five.

EA had two new releases in the chart - Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening at 11, and Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight’ at 12. While Capcom's MotoGP 09/10 charted just out of the top 20 at 21.

The full UK top 20 for the week ending March 20 is as follows:

01 God of War III
02 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
03 Final Fantasy XIII
04 Just Dance
05 Metro 2033
06 Wii Fit Plus
07 Heavy Rain
08 Wii Sports Resort
09 Sonic & SEGA: All Stars Racing
10 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
11 Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
12 Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
13 FIFA 10
14 Ben 10: Alien Force - Vilgax Attacks
15 New Super Mario Bros Wii
16 Aliens vs Predator
17 Bioshock 2
18 Forza Motorsport 3
19 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game
20 LEGO Batman: The Videogame

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