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GameFly Rental Chart Highlights: Week Ending March 28th

This week's GameFly video game rental charts for North America, specifically relating to games rented via the games-by-mail service for the week ending March 28th, show p...

Simon Carless, Blogger

March 28, 2005

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This week's GameFly video game rental charts for North America, specifically relating to games rented via the games-by-mail service for the week ending March 28th, show popularity over multiple game formats. In the all-formats chart, Sony's PlayStation 2 action adventure title God Of War heads straight in at number one, on the back of overwhelmingly positive reviews. The Free Radical-created multi-format FPS TimeSplitters: Future Perfect turned out second, and Xbox-specific first-person shooter Star Wars: Republic Commando hung around at number 3. The PlayStation 2 specific chart is, naturally enough, headed up by God of War, with Gearbox/Ubisoft's WWII title Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 next up, and Capcom's PS2-exclusive return to form Devil May Cry 3 third. As for the Xbox, it's simply TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, followed by Star Wars: Republic Commando, and then Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 once more. Although the top spots on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox charts are mainly made up of the top all-format games, Nintendo's GameCube has a whole different roster of largely GC-exclusive titles, with current exclusive Resident Evil 4 dominating in first place, closely followed by Star Fox Assault and the bongo-tastic Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat. As for the portable charts, the PSP sees the most popularity from vehicle combat game Twisted Metal: Head On, with, interestingly enough, card combat game Metal Gear Acid next, closely followed by Namco's excellent Ridge Racer. As for the Nintendo DS, Yoshi Touch & Go heads up the most-rented for the week, with Wario Ware: Touched! and Pokemon Dash hot on its tail, first-party titles to the fore.

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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