Crakcdown 2 Is The Highest Seliing Game in the UK... Again

For the second week running now. I wonder what's going on, is it the advertising? Anyway, the complete sales igures for the week ended yesterday:

01. Crackdown 2 (Microsoft)
02. Dance On Broadway (Ubisoft)
03. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Warner)
04. Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar)
05. Toy Story 3 (Disney)
06. 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (EA)
07. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
08. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 (EA)
09. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision)
10. Just Dance (Ubisoft)

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Well, at least Super Mario Galaxy and Red Dead are still on there.

Yes it is the advertising, there's also no other games coming out.mysterj

It's a shame Alan Wake didn't get the same level of support/sales, deserved it a lot more.

It's a shame Alan Wake didn't get the same level of support/sales, deserved it a lot more.

cheddar99

Alan Wake was far more deserving than this trash to take the top spot. Sigh I guess even if you advertise crap gamers pick it up... or maybe the game is genuinely fun, I dunno:P

This is a good game but it deserves to bomb in sales. Alan Wake has vanished from the charts; I am disappoint, UK.

Judging from the demo it is fun, but it looks really lazy. I know they only had a year, but it's way too similar to the first.

I guess the Brits love Crack...lol

The UK seems to like Crackdown for some reason. :oHexagon_777

This is a good game but it deserves to bomb in sales. Alan Wake has vanished from the charts; I am disappoint, UK.

Floppy_Jim

The way the youth of UK are today I understand why a game like Crackdown 2 would outsell AW. Sad really, I too am disappoint.

Wow...Crakcdown 2, huh? ;) (Look at the thread title closely :P )

That's depressing considering the mediocre - okay reviews and everything we know. I guess that power of marketing is too hard to ignore. This game shouldn't even exist, it's worse than the first game...and a new IP like Alan Wake is thrown in the ditch. Depressing.

2007's CRACKDOWN 1 MetaSCORE 83/100

2010's CRACKDOWN 2 MetaSCORE 70/100

Why do these things happen? :(

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Here's a review that really sums Crackdown 2 up :

"Quite honestly, I would recommend the first game over Crackdown 2 with no hesitation, and based on what's actually here, it seems to me that positioning the effort as a piece of $15 DLC would have been far more appropriate than trying to pass it off as a $60 retail release."

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]

This is a good game but it deserves to bomb in sales. Alan Wake has vanished from the charts; I am disappoint, UK.

Swift_Boss_A

The way the youth of UK are today I understand why a game like Crackdown 2 would outsell AW. Sad really, I too am disappoint.

'Tis a damn shame things have to be this way.

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]The UK seems to like Crackdown for some reason. :oVinegar_Strokes

Crackdown - 83%

Crackdown 2 - 70%

What happened? :?

that top ten really goes to show that us brits should be proud of our gaming tastes...

that top ten really goes to show that us brits should be proud of our gaming tastes...

my_name_is_ron

This is just.. so very wrong..

that top ten really goes to show that us brits should be proud of our gaming tastes...my_name_is_ron

Or is that ellipsis at the end meant to signify sarcasm?

This is a good game but it deserves to bomb in sales. Alan Wake has vanished from the charts; I am disappoint, UK.

Floppy_Jim

Proof that AAA's, and what SW thinks doesn't matter in the real world.

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]

This is a good game but it deserves to bomb in sales. Alan Wake has vanished from the charts; I am disappoint, UK.

SaltyMeatballs

Proof that AAA's, and what SW thinks doesn't matter in the real world.

Maybe they should have kept AW on PC as the open world game it was supposed to be. I'm guessing the younger audience onconsoles doesn't get hyped about short, single player psychological thrillers....now theres a shock

[QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"]

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]

This is a good game but it deserves to bomb in sales. Alan Wake has vanished from the charts; I am disappoint, UK.

1080pOnly

Proof that AAA's, and what SW thinks doesn't matter in the real world.

Maybe they should have kept AW on PC as the open world game it was supposed to be. I'm guessing the younger audience onconsoles doesn't get hyped about short, single player psychological thrillers....now theres a shock

And wtf is this #2 Dance on Broadway? How did Toy Story 3 outsell SMG2?mysterj

It releases today (the movie), of course its going to sell well.

I guess the Brits love Crack...lol

PabloEscobar20

Microsoft choosing to market the average Crackdown 2 instead of the great Alan Wake they fail.FlamesOfGrey

Yeah. Ms should be morons and market the game with LESS appeal. So people can see it on TV and think, wow, is till don't want that game.

Face it. No one cares about Alan Wake, no matter how good reviewers think it is. The game was pants, got repetative after the first stroll through the woods.

Crackdown is no better, but thems the breaks.

[QUOTE="FlamesOfGrey"]Microsoft choosing to market the average Crackdown 2 instead of the great Alan Wake they fail.-Snooze-

Yeah. Ms should be morons and market the game with LESS appeal. So people can see it on TV and think, wow, is till don't want that game.

Face it. No one cares about Alan Wake, no matter how good reviewers think it is. The game was pants, got repetative after the first stroll through the woods.

Crackdown is no better, but thems the breaks.

[QUOTE="-Snooze-"]

[QUOTE="FlamesOfGrey"]Microsoft choosing to market the average Crackdown 2 instead of the great Alan Wake they fail.FlamesOfGrey

Yeah. Ms should be morons and market the game with LESS appeal. So people can see it on TV and think, wow, is till don't want that game.

Face it. No one cares about Alan Wake, no matter how good reviewers think it is. The game was pants, got repetative after the first stroll through the woods.

Crackdown is no better, but thems the breaks.

[QUOTE="FlamesOfGrey"][QUOTE="-Snooze-"]

Yeah. Ms should be morons and market the game with LESS appeal. So people can see it on TV and think, wow, is till don't want that game.

Face it. No one cares about Alan Wake, no matter how good reviewers think it is. The game was pants, got repetative after the first stroll through the woods.

Crackdown is no better, but thems the breaks.

SaltyMeatballs

Well then they should have moved Alan Wake. Microsoft were stupid if that actually thought Alan Wake would do great sandwiched in between RDR and SMG2.

i won't be getting this game,i think it's rubbish,it's a sad state of affairs when a game like alan wake bombs and a mindless shooter hits the top spot two weeks in a row, we are not a nation of thinkers anymore.delta3074

Alan Wake is neither deep nor complex. It's as mindless as Crackdown, but twice as boring.

Ohhh, same ghostly figure i've seen 10 times in the past 3 minutes, shine light, avoid axe throw, shoot head. Rinse repeat for 2 hours.

How anyone enjoyed AW is beyond me ...

[QUOTE="delta3074"]i won't be getting this game,i think it's rubbish,it's a sad state of affairs when a game like alan wake bombs and a mindless shooter hits the top spot two weeks in a row, we are not a nation of thinkers anymore.-Snooze-

Alan Wake is neither deep nor complex. It's as mindless as Crackdown, but twice as boring.

Ohhh, same ghostly figure i've seen 10 times in the past 3 minutes, shine light, avoid axe throw, shoot head. Rinse repeat for 2 hours.

How anyone enjoyed AW is beyond me ...

[QUOTE="-Snooze-"]

[QUOTE="delta3074"]i won't be getting this game,i think it's rubbish,it's a sad state of affairs when a game like alan wake bombs and a mindless shooter hits the top spot two weeks in a row, we are not a nation of thinkers anymore.SaltyMeatballs

Alan Wake is neither deep nor complex. It's as mindless as Crackdown, but twice as boring.

Ohhh, same ghostly figure i've seen 10 times in the past 3 minutes, shine light, avoid axe throw, shoot head. Rinse repeat for 2 hours.

How anyone enjoyed AW is beyond me ...

I like looooooooads of games. Too many to list.

[QUOTE="delta3074"]i won't be getting this game,i think it's rubbish,it's a sad state of affairs when a game like alan wake bombs and a mindless shooter hits the top spot two weeks in a row, we are not a nation of thinkers anymore.-Snooze-

Alan Wake is neither deep nor complex. It's as mindless as Crackdown, but twice as boring.

Ohhh, same ghostly figure i've seen 10 times in the past 3 minutes, shine light, avoid axe throw, shoot head. Rinse repeat for 2 hours.

How anyone enjoyed AW is beyond me ...

Wow...Crakcdown 2, huh? ;)

That's depressing considering the mediocre - okay reviews and everything we know. I guess that power of marketing is too hard to ignore. This game shouldn't even exist, it's worse than the first game...and a new IP like Alan Wake is thrown in the ditch. Depressing.

2007's CRACKDOWN 1 MetaSCORE 83/100

2010's CRACKDOWN 2 MetaSCORE 70/100

Why do these things happen? :(

SolidTy

have you played the game?

[QUOTE="SolidTy"]

Wow...Crakcdown 2, huh? ;)

That's depressing considering the mediocre - okay reviews and everything we know. I guess that power of marketing is too hard to ignore. This game shouldn't even exist, it's worse than the first game...and a new IP like Alan Wake is thrown in the ditch. Depressing.

2007's CRACKDOWN 1 MetaSCORE 83/100

2010's CRACKDOWN 2 MetaSCORE 70/100

Why do these things happen? :(

WilliamRLBaker

have you played the game?

Calling a 71 game mediocre is a reason why gaming will die. Oh, you need the big triple A games with a budget to match to deserve sales these days. Small devs can kiss my ass, right?

[QUOTE="-Snooze-"]

[QUOTE="delta3074"]i won't be getting this game,i think it's rubbish,it's a sad state of affairs when a game like alan wake bombs and a mindless shooter hits the top spot two weeks in a row, we are not a nation of thinkers anymore.delta3074

Alan Wake is neither deep nor complex. It's as mindless as Crackdown, but twice as boring.

Ohhh, same ghostly figure i've seen 10 times in the past 3 minutes, shine light, avoid axe throw, shoot head. Rinse repeat for 2 hours.

How anyone enjoyed AW is beyond me ...

The inclusion of a weak narrative makes it deep and complex? I thought I was on gamespot, where gamplay dictated how deep/complex a game was. My mistake.

It's a perfectly competent and fun game. It has much more mass appeal than Alan Wake regardless of review scores.

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]

[QUOTE="SolidTy"]

Wow...Crakcdown 2, huh? ;)

That's depressing considering the mediocre - okay reviews and everything we know. I guess that power of marketing is too hard to ignore. This game shouldn't even exist, it's worse than the first game...and a new IP like Alan Wake is thrown in the ditch. Depressing.

2007's CRACKDOWN 1 MetaSCORE 83/100

2010's CRACKDOWN 2 MetaSCORE 70/100

Why do these things happen? :(

have you played the game?

Calling a 71 game mediocre is a reason why gaming will die. Oh, you need the big triple A games with a budget to match to deserve sales these days. Small devs can kiss my ass, right?

[QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"][QUOTE="-Snooze-"]

Alan Wake is neither deep nor complex. It's as mindless as Crackdown, but twice as boring.

Ohhh, same ghostly figure i've seen 10 times in the past 3 minutes, shine light, avoid axe throw, shoot head. Rinse repeat for 2 hours.

How anyone enjoyed AW is beyond me ...

-Snooze-

I like looooooooads of games. Too many to list.

[QUOTE="SolidTy"]

Wow...Crakcdown 2, huh? ;) (Look at the thread title closely :P )

That's depressing considering the mediocre - okay reviews and everything we know. I guess that power of marketing is too hard to ignore. This game shouldn't even exist, it's worse than the first game...and a new IP like Alan Wake is thrown in the ditch. Depressing.

2007's CRACKDOWN 1 MetaSCORE 83/100

2010's CRACKDOWN 2 MetaSCORE 70/100

Why do these things happen? :(

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Here's a review that really sums Crackdown 2 up :

"Quite honestly, I would recommend the first game over Crackdown 2 with no hesitation, and based on what's actually here, it seems to me that positioning the effort as a piece of $15 DLC would have been far more appropriate than trying to pass it off as a $60 retail release."

WilliamRLBaker

have you played the game?

Yes, of course. Against my wishes, my buddy rented a copy and I was forced to play the game co op with him, even though I already invested time in the Demo before hand, and I knew what to expect. It's not terrible, it's just not a game that should be the Highest Selling Game anywhere in the world.

Why listen to me and what I think of Crackdown2 and all it's faults though, when people can just click on these great links I provided? That's why I skipped my whole opinion, I just wanted all of SW to see the facts instead of my thoughts on Crackdown 2's gameplay. Maybe next time I will skip the factual presentation, and just say this game is either great or this game sucks. :P I'm trying to give SW what it wants, even though it's a very unpredicable beast.

The 70+ reviewers that have scored Crackdown 2 make the point much better than I could anyways. I could obviously click the links and quote after quote the faults of the game, but I will leave that to those that really are interested on what went wrong.

FlamesofGrey, fellow gamespotter 3 posts above said this about the Crackdown 2 :

"It is worse because it does almost nothing to improve upon the Flaws of the first Crackdown. The melee and targeting are still **** which you'd think would be an easy fix. You still take dmage while falling which pretty much defeats the purpose of giving you those awesome high jumping abilities. The multiplayer is just tacked on and bare. The story is still ****. All they did was change up the mission structure, add renegade and co-op for even more of a collecting marathon, and more co-op options whle leaving the same problems the first one had still in there."

Crackdown2 is a 3.5 year later sequel, and it's retailing for full price...it blows my mind that people are going crazy for it at all, even if it's just the U.K. So many other games deserve the sales.

[QUOTE="delta3074"]i won't be getting this game,i think it's rubbish,it's a sad state of affairs when a game like alan wake bombs and a mindless shooter hits the top spot two weeks in a row, we are not a nation of thinkers anymore.-Snooze-

Alan Wake is neither deep nor complex. It's as mindless as Crackdown, but twice as boring.

Ohhh, same ghostly figure i've seen 10 times in the past 3 minutes, shine light, avoid axe throw, shoot head. Rinse repeat for 2 hours.

How anyone enjoyed AW is beyond me ...

I have to agree the combat and gameplay did let me down in AW, however, I still would prefer AW to Crackdown 2. I would much rather guys like Remedy get the funds than Ruffian.

C'est la vie. To think this is a a full priced retail game, it's crazy to me. Sequels shouldn't come out performing worse than the prequels, especially 3.5 years later.

As the years go by, the top sales charts these days just get filled with more and more ****.

Sigh.

A good game getting great sales.

Go Crackdown 2!

I am disappoint.

at least.....at least advertise Alan Wake and the free DLC next week....or..or something?

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]The UK seems to like Crackdown for some reason. :oVinegar_Strokes