14 DAY TRIAL // Saints Row 4, the open-world video game from developer Volition and publisher Deep Silver, is keeping the number one position in the United Kingdom video game sales chart for the third full week in a row, despite the high-quality launches that took place during the previous seven weeks.
The new Saints Row title allows gamers to be the President of the United States, gain access to superpowers and then battle an alien invasion, all with a layer of added humor and insanity.
Total War: Rome II, the strategy title from The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA, is the new release that came closest to dethroning it during the tracked interval that finished on September 7, according to data coming from UKIE.
The game takes players back to Antiquity and allows them to control a number of factions that are fighting to dominate the Mediterranean space via warfare and diplomacy.
Third place in the United Kingdom was captured by the console-based launch of Diablo 3, which Blizzard has redesigned to support cooperative offline play and to offer a solid performance on the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 controllers.
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist, the stealth-based Sam Fisher experience that stood in second place during the previous seven-day period, is now only in fourth place while Disney Infinity has also dropped one position to reach fifth.
The Xbox 360 version of indie hit Minecraft, which sat at number one during the summer, continues to perform well in order to stay in sixth and is followed by PayDay 2, the heist-powered title from Overkill and Starbreeze.
Killzone: Mercenary is another new entry in the United Kingdom, debuting at eight and Rayman Legends is in ninth.
The top is closed down by Farming Simulator 2013 from Focus Home IOnteractive and for the first time since it was launched FIFA 13 is out of the chart.