14 DAY TRIAL // Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the video game that sits at the top of the United Kingdom video game chart for its first 2015 iteration, showing that despite criticism from the community it has managed to make the franchise attractive once more for fans of the first-person shooter genre.
Developer Sledgehammer Games and publisher Activision have also announced that the first major piece of downloadable content for the title, called Havoc, will be launched on January 27, which will probably ensure continued solid sales.
The fan community will also be able to get into the first season of Ranked Play for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare starting on January 9, with the play period running until the end of the month.
Grand Theft Auto V, the open world title from Rockstar, starts the year in second place overall, according to data from UKIE, and the title will probably get another boost in its own sales numbers late in the month, when the PC version will be launched and will deliver the best possible graphics quality.
The last position in the United Kingdom video game chart for January 3 belongs to FIFA 15, another title that has not moved since the previously tracked period.
The best of the rest
Far Cry 4, the open world shooter from Ubisoft, is the first game in the UK top ten to actually gain one position when compared to the previous week, as it moved to fourth place, switching places with Assassin’s Creed Unity, another Ubisoft-made game that seems to have gotten over the problems it faced on launch and continues to attract a solid number of players.
A third game from the French publisher, The Crew, is in sixth place and is followed by Destiny, which has returned to the top ten, probably based on the quality offered by the new The Dark Below expansion, that introduces a range of new content for gamers to explore.
WWE 2K15, the wrestling simulation from 2K Sports, is another returning title in eighth place, and it’s followed by DriveClub, the racing experience that’s exclusive to the PlayStation 4 and dropped two positions even as more updates are planned in order to improve gameplay.
The United Kingdom top ten is closed down by the Xbox Edition of indie hit Minecraft from Mojang.
