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Mass Effect 2 Takes UK Chart Top Spot

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By Tom Ivan

February 1, 2010

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BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 took the top spot on the UK chart during the week ended January 30.

Well received by critics and consumers, the sci-fi sequel sold two million copies globally in its first week of availability, according to publisher EA. First week UK sales on Xbox 360 were almost double those achieved by the original Mass Effect, and three times higher on PC.

Ubisoft’s Just Dance slipped to second after two weeks at the UK chart summit, while Modern Warfare 2 also dropped one place to third.

The week’s second highest new entry was Sony’s PS3 exclusive MAG, which debuted in fourth place, ahead of Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort.

01. Mass Effect 2 (EA)
02. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
03. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision)
04. MAG (Sony)
05. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
06. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)
07. FIFA 10 (EA)
08. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
09. Army Of Two: The 40th Day (EA)
10. James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)

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UK chart history


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On February 1st Rob_Jackson said:

I am one of those who helped take it there. My gut, knee-jerk reaction to playing the first 3 hours of it; hmmmmmm. It has that 'Have we been conned by the reviewers?' Halo feel to it. It is OK, but hardly the second coming. The performances by the acting leads are very wooden, if it was a movie they would be slaughtered in film reviews. The whole thing pales on the acting front compared to KOTOR, and then there is the set design..... You blast across the universe and when you arrive, the terrain has stairs and ramps with the same dimension and scales as on the previous planet. "Oh yeah, stair here, box to hide behind will be about here' you can just guess it before you clap eyes on it. This game is a solid 8.3, no more. The best of RPG is in the past now and probably will be for an entire human generation.......

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On February 1st StealthBadger said:

I intend to buy ME2 in a year or so when it's cheap, and I've got around to finishing the first one. I gave up whilst aimlessly driving around some planet being a bit confused, but I've heard enough good opinions since to think it's worth re-starting.

In other news, I'm really enjoying MAG, despite my headset intermittently cutting out. I think fourth place (third if you take CODs two platforms seperately) is pretty good, seeing as it's had minimal marketing so far.

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On February 1st Duncan_Stewart said:

MAG marketing was quite heavy in-store at the weekend, both HMV and Gamestation in Edinburgh had their PS3 demo pods curtained off with MAG on display inside and they were pretty popular with the shop-goers. I agree that outside of this though I haven't seen too much other advertising though. Reviews seem slightly mixed but generally positive.