UK charts: Just Cause 2 overthrows GoW III from top spot

By Johnny Cullen

Just Cause 2 has become this week’s number one in the latest UK charts.

The Avalanche-developed sequel has overthrown God of War III from its position last week a fair distance to seventh.

Meanwhile, the highest new entrants are the two new Pokemon games for DS, with SoulSilver in second and HeartGold in fourth. Pitty, mind, about Red Steel 2: it entered at 34th.

Full top ten below. Last week’s charts are here.

• 1 – Just Cause 2 (Avalanche/Square Enix)
• 2 – Pokemon SoulSilver (The Pokemon Company/Nintendo)
• 3 – Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (EA DICE/EA)
• 4 – Pokemon HeartGold (The Pokemon Company/Nintendo)
• 5 – Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft/Ubisoft)
• 6 – Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• 7 – God of War III (Sony Santa Monica/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• 8 – Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix/Square Enix)
• 9 – Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo/Nintendo)
• 10 – Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo/Nintendo)