Dark Souls 3 hits the top of the UK games chart less than a week after release
It's the most successful instalment in the series so far
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Your support makes all the difference.Dark Souls 3 has rocketed to the top of the UK games chart, less than a week after its launch.
The latest game from Bandai Namco, available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, sees the player take on the role of an undead warrior fighting a range of enemies with swords, bows and magic, in order to avert an impending apocalypse.
It's the follow-up to 2014's universally-acclaimed Dark Souls 2, and was hotly anticipated for months before its release.
Dark Souls 3 came out on 12 April, and shot straight to the top of the chart, becoming the most successful title in the series so far.
Just below Dark Souls, in second place, is Tom Clancy's The Division, followed cloesly by EA's UFC 2.
Dark Souls took the top spot from Quantum Break, Microsoft's mad time-bending shooter, which hit the No. 1 spot after its 5 April release but slipped away shortly after.
Dark Souls' runaway commercial success shouldn't come as too much of a surprise - it's got a Metacritic score of 90/100, as was described as "endearing," "brilliant" and "torturously hard" by The Independent.
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