Tue, May 08, 2012 | 10:01 BST

UK charts: Sniper Elite V2 takes top spot

Sniper Elite V2 is the new UK number one, taking out Prototype 2 from the top of the charts.

Prototype 2′s doesn’t fall far, however, landing in second. The rest of the top five consists of the two FIFAs – 12 and Street – and Mass Effect 3.

Mortal Kombat reenters the top 40 thanks to the release of the Vita version of the fighter, which enters the Vita chart as number one.

Full top ten for the week ending May 5 is below. Last week’s data is here.

1 – Sniper Elite V2
2 – Prototype 2
3 – FIFA 12
4 – FIFA Street
5 – Mass Effect 3
6 – Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13
7 – Kinect Star Wars
8 – Mario & Sonic at the London Olympics
9 – Battlefield 3
10 – Modern Warfare 3

7 comments

aseddon130
08/05/12, 9:23 am

quiet week in games then?

Gekidami
08/05/12, 10:07 am

BF3 in front of MW3? What trickery is this?

KAP
08/05/12, 10:30 am

Number 1 in the charts yet poor reviews by many?

Thats trickery fella, A very expensive one at that.

The_Red
08/05/12, 10:33 am

Hopefully success of Sniper Elite V2 means more games will feature exploding internal organs with X-Ray shots.

AHA-Lambda
08/05/12, 10:48 am

Wow that has to be a quiet week =/

EA must be happy though, half that top 10 is all them and its been like that for months O_o

Noodlemanny
08/05/12, 11:33 am

I think that Sniper Elite is actually a pretty good game. Not brilliant by far but I think it deserves 1st place for a little while. I’ve been really enjoying it and although its not really very ‘deep’, at all, in any way, the fact still remains its fun to shoot the shit out of some Germans. And Russians as well for some reason. At one point the Russians were about to shoot a German V2 rocket filled with deadly gas at London for absolutely no reason whatsoever. In this game the Russians are in league with the Germans or something like that. So apart from the historical retardation its a pretty sound game.

DSB
08/05/12, 1:32 pm

Well deserved. Granted the only real competition is Prototype 2, but it wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t selling something.

@4 From your lips to the flying spaghetti monsters ears my friend.

@5 It’s very US 1950′s in its approach, but in fairness, Stalin is the rolemodel for a large number of the most heinouis dictators in modern history.

It’s not uncommon for governments to work behind the scenes in order to send a message to other governments, although mass casualty terrorism is unheard of.

The honeymoon between USSR and US was extremely short, and it didn’t take more than 3 years before Stalin used military force to try and starve Berlin away from the allies.