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Showing once again the power of the cinema when it comes to games releases, Activision's multi-format movie spin-off climbs back to the top. And the Charlie And The Chocolate Factory spin-off - despite critical maulings - bubbles up to number two. Again it is from Activision and runs on the GameBoy Advance, GameCube, PC, PS2 and Xbox.

Codemaster's cricket game for the PC, PS2 and Xbox - Brian Lara International Cricket 2005, to give it its full name - slips to number three.

The main climber in a quiet week is Codemaster's Worms 4: Mayhem and its worm-versus-worm gameplay. Available in PC, PS2 and Xbox formats, it wriggles - or slithers or whatever it is that worms do - up from 20 to 11.

The Sims 2 also re-enters the top 20,

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up from 26 to number 18.

Getting format-specific, Battlefield 2 still remains in the number one spot for PC games, and Fantastic 4 pips Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 at the top of the PS2 pile. The cricket game, however, stays at the crease to top the Xbox chart.

Here is the all-format Top 20 in full (number of weeks in chart in brackets), for the week ending 6 August (full-price games):

1 Madagascar (6)
2 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (3)
3 Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 (3)
4 Fantastic 4 (4)
5 Destroy All Humans! (7)
6 Medal of Honor: European Assault (8)
7 Cricket 2005 (6)
8 Lego Star Wars (16)
9 Juiced (8)
10 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (41)
11 Worms 4: Mayhem (2)
12 Battlefield 2 (7)
13 Championship Manager 5 (21)
14 God of War (5)
15 Star Wars Ep 3: Revenge of The Sith (14)
16 Need For Speed: Underground 2 (37)
17 Tekken 5 (7)
18 The Sims 2 (47)
19 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (19)
20 Gran Turismo 4 (22)

The ELSPA leisure software chart is compiled by ChartTrack.