Top 20: Pandora Tomorrow still reigns supreme

Official ELSPA Top 20 Software Chart (all prices) - week ending 10 April

1 (1)
(Xbox, PC, GBA)
2 (3)
(PS2, Xbox, Gamecube)
3 (2)
(PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, GBA)
4 (5)
(PC)
5 (NE)
(PS2, Xbox)
6 (6)
(PS2, Xbox)
7 (8)
(PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC, PSone, GBA)
8 (7)
(PS2)
9 (10)
(PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC)
10 (13)
(PS2, PC)
11 (11)
(PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC)
12 (RE)
(PS2, Xbox, Gamecube)
13 (17)
(PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, GBA)
14 (5)
(PC)
15 (9)
(PS2, Xbox)
16 (RE)
(PS2, Xbox, PC)
17 (14)
(PS2)
18 (20)
(PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC, GBA)
19 (12)
(PS2, Xbox)
20 (RE)
(PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, GBA)

Sam Fisher is still the man as Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow hogs the top slot for its third week in a row. Gamers continue to be enamoured with its light and shade stealth gameplay and rightly so - it stands heads and shoulders above other recently released console shooters.

The new entry of the week is World Championship Rugby, managing a very impressive sprint to number five. Coming on the back of England's World Cup win, it was the obvious, yet still smart, move from publishers Acclaim to get a title out there quick time and it's clearly paid off.

There are a number of re-entries into the top 20, the most significant being Crash Bandicoot - Wrath of Cortex and The Sims, the former jumping nine places to 12, while the latter notches up a 15 position hike to 16.

Overall, it's been a very good Easter period for UK software sales, being the third most lucrative week of 2004. All formats have seen a significant jump in sales and and software units flying off the shelves are 13.7% up on this time last year.

Leisure software charts compiled by ChartTrack
(C) 2004 (UK) Ltd

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