UK Video Game Chart: Call of Duty Advanced Warfare blows away opposition to claim No.1

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has entered the UK video game chart at No.1, easily outpacing the launch week of last year’s Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Advanced Warfare is only the fifth biggest launch for a Call of Duty game, but is still able to embarrass other chart-topping first-person shooters this year. The game’s week one total beats the combined week one sales of Titanfall, Destiny and Wolfenstein by almost 14 per cent.

FIFA 15 moves down into second spot, removed from the top for the first time since its launch. SEGA’s Football Manager 2015 is new at No.3, but quite a way back from FIFA, followed by Alien: Isolation which climbs up to fourth thanks to pretty heavy retailer discounting.

Destiny is also up one place to fifth, followed by Minecraft: PlayStation Edition, Skylanders: Trap Team, Sunset Overdrive, The Evil Within and Minecraft: Xbox Edition.

Source: UKIE Games Charts, compiled by GfK Chart-Track, (All Prices) Week 45, 2014

1. CALL OF DUTY: ADVANCED WARFARE

2. FIFA 15

3. FOOTBALL MANAGER 2015

4. ALIEN: ISOLATION

5. DESTINY

6. MINECRAFT: PLAYSTATION EDITION

7. SKYLANDERS TRAP TEAM

8. SUNSET OVERDRIVE

9. THE EVIL WITHIN

10. MINECRAFT: XBOX EDITION

11. FORZA HORIZON 2

12. DISNEY INFINITY 2.0

13. WWE 2K15

14. MIDDLE EARTH: SHADOW OF MORDOR

15. WATCH DOGS

16. ASSASSIN’S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG

17. SUPER SMASH BROS.

18. LEGO THE HOBBIT

19. TOMODACHI LIFE

20. FROZEN: OLAF’S QUEST

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare will have a lot to contend with if it is to remain at No.1 next week. In what appears to be the busiest week for new releases this winter, gamers have their choice from Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Assassin’s Creed: Rogue, LEGO Batman 3, Warlords of Draenor, and PES 2015. We expect Assassin’s Creed Unity to claim the top spot, but with so many new titles coming to stores anything could happen.