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Tuesday 16th August 2005

UK games chart: Cricket gets comfortable at the crease 12:20PM, Tuesday 16th August 2005

August is always a quiet month for games and with no new entries in this week's ELSPA UK games chart we watch the existing pack shuffle - Ashes interest fuels Brian Lara's return to the top of the charts with Brian Lara International Cricket 2005

Behind Codemaster's cricket game for the PC, PS2 and Xbox, Activision's multi-format movie spin-offs line up, with Madagascar at two and Fantastic 4 at number three.

Also benefiting from the efforts of Vaughn and his boys is Cricket 2005, EA's leather and willow game for the PC, PS2 and Xbox. Indeed, Xplosiv's International Cricket Captain: Ashes 05 also makes it to the top of the chart for budget PC games.

The only other point of note is the venerable Half-Life 2 climbing from 25 back up into the top twenty.

Getting format-specific, Battlefield 2 is finally dislodged by The Sims 2 as the number one

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PC game, and Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 regains the top spot for the PS2 and stays at number one in the Xbox chart.

Without more ado, here is the all-format Top 20 in full (number of weeks in chart in brackets), for the week ending 13 August (full-price games):

1 Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 (4)
2 Madagascar (7)
3 Fantastic 4 (5)
4 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (4)
5 Cricket 2005 (7)
6 Lego Star Wars (17)
7 Medal of Honor: European Assault (9)
8 Juiced (9)
9 Destroy All Humans! (8)
10 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (42)
11 The Sims 2 (48)
12 Battlefield 2 (8)
13 Championship Manager 5 (22)
14 Need For Speed: Underground 2 (38)
15 Star Wars Ep 3: Revenge of The Sith (15)
16 Tekken 5 (8)
17 Worms 4: Mayhem (3)
18 God of War (6)
19 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (20)
20 Half-Life 2 (35)