Resident Evil 5 has enjoyed a dominant debut week at the UK retailers.

Data provided by GfK Chart Track shows that the latest in Capcom’s refined action-horror series has managed to become the fastest selling game in the franchise.

Its rise to the top of the charts makes it the UK’s largest all-format number one since Call of Duty: World at War’s turnout during week 47 of 2008. That means the title has enjoyed better sales than any title released thick in the Christmas season – including the Christmas number one FIFA 09 – and marks Capcom’s biggest ever UK launch.

The title represents over a quarter of all revenue from console games this week. And, as a final accolade to the game’s commercial triumph, Chart Track reports that the title has also outsold the combined sales of the other nine entries in the top ten.

There’s much movement throughout the rest of the top ten; not surprising in light of the UK seeing five separate games take top spot in as many weeks.

Last week’s number one – the creative assembly’s Empire: Total War sees sales plummet 70 percent, taking the title to eighth. Killzone 2’s sales slide too, falling 53 percent and enough to drop the game from second to fifth. As predicted last week, Nintendo’s Wii Fit has managed to fill the gap, climbing one place to second despite a 14 percent sales drop.

Tom Clancy’s HAWX climbs to third following its healthy debut week, though sales are cut by 19 percent. The Nintendo DS brain-teaser Professor Layton and the Curious Village climbs from sixth to fourth while taking a 20 percent cut in sales.

FIFA 09 stands at sixth – climbing two places – while Activision’s World at War also takes two steps up to seventh. Halo Wars falls to ninth after a sixty percent drop in sales, and sits just above Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, which re-enters the top ten at tenth.

Elsewhere, Street Fighter IV drops to thirteenth, behind the top 40’s second-highest new entry of the week; Socom: Confrontation.

UK All Format top ten for the week ended March 14 according to GfK Chart-Track: