Deep Silver’s Zombie-thumper, Dead Island: Riptide, has made it to the top spot this week. It’s a peculiar product, a standalone expansion that doesn’t quite justify the title of sequel and is too fully featured to simply be DLC. Despite selling less than half the opening week units of the original Dead Island game, Riptide takes the number one position in this week’s chart.
Injustice is holding on at number two ahead of Capcom’s complete edition of Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen. This is the original game bundled up with all the DLC and some new, unreleased, material. Star Trek, despite its poor reviews, is at number four – perhaps showing the power of a well-loved licence and an imminent movie release.
The highest charting game for a single platform is the Nintendo 3DS’ Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins in eighth position. Luigi’s Mansion 2, also for the 3DS, isn’t far behind in tenth.
Here’s the top twenty, for the full chart head on over to UKIE:
- DEAD ISLAND: RIPTIDE – KOCH MEDIA
- INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US – WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
- DRAGON’S DOGMA: DARK ARISEN – CAPCOM
- STAR TREK – NAMCO BANDAI GAMES
- TOMB RAIDER – SQUARE ENIX EUROPE
- BIOSHOCK INFINITE – TAKE 2
- FIFA 13 – ELECTRONIC ARTS
- LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER: THE CHASE BEGINS – NINTENDO
- DEFIANCE – TRION WORLDS
- LUIGI’S MANSION 2 – NINTENDO
- CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS II – ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
- FAR CRY 3 – UBISOFT
- FIRE EMBLEM: AWAKENING – NINTENDO
- THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM – BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
- SONIC & ALL STARS RACING TRANSFORMED – SEGA
- LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES – WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
- HITMAN ABSOLUTION – SQUARE ENIX EUROPE
- SKYLANDERS GIANTS – ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
- ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES – SEGA
- ASSASSIN’S CREED III – UBISOFT
Youles
I’ve got Riptide but haven’t even loaded it up, gonna play the entire game co-op with McProley, so we’re waiting until our first co-op opportunity – hopefully this Friday!
f4rgo
I think you may need more time than the occasional weekend, I’m 26 hours in and only just at chapter 4. Mind you my gaming OCD compels me to open every box and uncover every inch of every map. A better balanced individual may be able to just charge through it (just the thought makes me shudder).
Youles
Haha, I’m exactly the same – which is probably why I’m not enjoying Bioshock Infinite that much….there are more crates and barrels to search, than there are enemies to shoot (by far)! That’s good to know, thanks…..given my wife is having a baby in 6 weeks, I may just have to do the main quests co-op (for that trophy) then replay it for all the side-quests, otherwise neither of us may never get it finished!! ;)
f4rgo
Glad its not just me then ;) I just platted Infinite and have only interrupted my 3rd play-through of it to start Riptide. I’m sure I had a life once upon a time.
Youles
Lol, it’s certainly not just you! ;) I’m kinda hoping I find all the collectables on my first Bioshock run, then I’ll just be able to enjoy my second playthrough and progress at a less-boring pace. I probably should have done it the other way around, and concentrated on just enjoying my first playthrough. The great thing about Dead Island is that it’s just a lot of fun! I may also go back and play the Ryder White DLC to get me back into it before starting Riptide. There aren’t any trophies so I can just enjoy it, and it gives more of a back-story apparently.
f4rgo
I did exactly that, had a blast on the first run however that meant the 1999 mode and missed collectables were done together (I like a challenge!). I couldn’t get into the Ryder White DLC as it has no coop but others enjoyed it. Agree totally with the “fun” assessment of DI, I don’t remember having this much enjoyment from another Co-op, yes it has issues but they can be entertaining (my co-op partner suddenly being transported back to a hub point whilst he was driving the jeep, leaving me trundling to a stop in a horde of biters……). Love it.
Youles
Yeah I agree, the glitches can be pretty funny…..I remember fighting some zombie fights for ages on my own before realising that my co-op partner(s) and actual frozen and been kicked from the game. Shooting explosive barrels also seemed somewhat of a lottery, sometimes they would hurt your colleagues when you shot them, and sometimes not – always fun finding out!
Taylor Made
I don’t get how tomb raider hasn’t met SE target, it’s been in top 10 for a while now so people are buying it
Youles
Perhaps they were just too optimistic regarding their targets….although I think the game is amazing, one of the best I’ve played in a while.
Peter Chapman
yep, wildly unrealistic targets. They basically supposed that Tomb Raider would sell Halo 4 or even CoD numbers, which was never going to happen (although TR isn’t done selling yet!).
Youles
Wow, that is unrealistic. I don’t work in the industry yet even I know that would be a stupidly inaccurate estimate. I should imagine a sales person came up with those numbers, not a financial person! Don’t get me wrong though, I’d love it to have sold that much.
KeRaSh
Yes, very unrealistic sales projections. The fact that Bioshock dropped below TR just shows how great the game is selling so long after its launch. Hopefully SE learned from this mistake.
freezebug2
Sheesh! Only own/played 2 of the games in that chart TR and Sonic karting! {:’o
It’ll be up to 3 soon though when Absolution settles on the Plus shelving.
Youles
:O
I own 7/20, and can’t have 3 (Nintendo ones). Would like to buy 2 (FarCry 3 and maybe Lego Batman 2). Am I right in saying there are no Sony or MS exclusives….maybe goes to show they are both working on next Gen exclusives?
freezebug2
“Am I right in saying there are no Sony or MS exclusives….maybe goes to show they are both working on next Gen exclusives?”
Other than GT6 for this gen, I’m not sure :-?
Youles
Sorry mate, I meant in the top 20! I couldn’t spot a single console-exclusive other than Nintendo’s games.
freezebug2
Cool, I was just showing my limited span anyway with the only focus being on a new Gran Turismo helping :P
Youles
Haha, I bet you can’t wait for that! ;)
Awayze
Who is still buying Skyrim?
freezebug2
TheLoneSteven?
cam_manutd
No Call of Duty in the top 10-huzaah!
Eldave0
*has a quick count up*
Amazingly I have only played 5 of those games! I must be slacking, lol.
Nice to see a couple of 3DS games floating around in there :-)
bunimomike
“A standalone expansion that doesn’t quite justify the title of sequel and is too fully featured to simply be DLC.”
Have to disagree, fella. It’s a sequel in every sense of the word.
I’ve been playing it with Ryan Martin and Teflon and it’s been great so far. Two thirds of the way through and what a blast! Better graphics (PC version), lovely soundtrack (never thought I’d be saying that) and the new special zombies are a welcome addition. In every other sense it’s “more of the same” but the devs actually came out and said that so we knew what to expect. From a game-mechanics perspective it’s more of the same but it continues where we left off in the first one.
£17.80 with TheHut (when you could pre-order) and it’s been stunning VFM (Value For Money).
I hope it sells well enough for another outing as there’s a 9 out of 10 game there somewhere – just not here. I couldn’t justify such a score but personal entertainment is hard to measure and it’s great fun in co-op. Some of the best I’ve played. Equally, the island is a pleasure to explore.
Peter Chapman
they re-use all the assets from the first game, that’s not a sequel, it’s an expansion.
bunimomike
Have they said so, fella? If so, that’s a bit cheap and nasty on their part. However, it looks similar as they’ve crashed near the original island. Same bloody accents everywhere too!
Story-wise, it’s a sequel. By every dictionary definition, it’s a sequel even if they’ve been shameless about how they went about it.
KeRaSh
It’s still more than what sports franchises are pulling off.
Trade some players around, change jerseys and design a new cover and then sell millions of copies throughout the year…