Tomb Raider is this week’s UK number one despite a 72% week-on-week drop in sales and a strong challenge from Sony Santa Monica’s God Of War Ascension, the highest new entry this week at number two.
Ascension has posted the series’ second biggest week one sales behind God Of War III, which sold more than double when it arrived at number one back in 2010.
StarCraft II: Heart Of The Swarm and Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 are also new this week at three and four respectively.
The Ukie all formats top ten for the week ending March 16th, compiled by ChartTrack, is as follows, with week-on-week sales differences in brackets where given.
1. Tomb Raider (-72%)
2. God Of War Ascension
3. StarCraft II: Heart Of The Swarm
4. Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
5. SimCity (-50%)
6. FIFA 13 (-14%)
7. Far Cry 3 (-3%)
8. Crysis 3 (-42%)
9. Call Of Duty: Black Ops II (-14%)
10. The Sims 3: University Life (-57%)
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