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The top 100 selling video games of 2017 have been revealed - and football sim fifa 18 is king.
The annual soccer franchise beat off stiff competition from shooter Call of Duty: WW2 and ageing guns-and-gangsters hit GTA 5 to grab the no1 physical game disc sales chart.
Assassin's Creed's resurgence last year in its Egypt themed Origins instalment helped it to shift some serious units and make no4 in the GfK Chart-Track list.
And despite and uproar over piad-for loot boxes in the game, space shooter Star Wars Battlefront 2 did well in the shops, making fifth place.
The revamped Crash Bandicoot collection N Sane Trilogy did brilliantly as a Playstation 4 exclusive in sixth.
And Activision's other big shooter, away from CoD, Destiny 2 made 7th.
PS4 exclusive Gran Turismo Sport came 8th and was the top-rated race game in the sales.
Crpss-platform open-world shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands made it into 9th place.
And another Playstation-only hit, new franchise Horizon Zero Dawn, completed the top ten.
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Seth Barton, of industry analysts MCV, said: "The biggest selling games of last year have been revealed by GfK - and unsurprising it's FIFA 18 that comes out on top once again.
"And what a crown it is, in what has been a highly competitive year.
"Other big winners include Call of Duty, which had a great year, with the latest release hitting the kinds of sales figures we'd expect from the franchise - it actually ranked
No.1 when looking at Xbox One alone.
"Grand Theft Auto remains a must-have title for those upgrading to the current generation of consoles.
"Crash Bandicoot was the surprise package of the year, underlining that there's more to retro than Nintendo mini consoles.
"Ghost Recon: Wildlands earns a Top 10 place having re-established the franchise early in the year to great effect.
"Assassin's Creed: Origins could maybe have performed better given the franchise took a break last year, but No.4 is still a strong placing.
"There's really no more to say about Battlefront II's loot box problem - except that even the most intense criticism hasn't done more to dent sales.
"Both Gran Turismo: Sport and Forza Horizon 3 had massive sales boosts from being bundled with hardware - namely the PS VR and the Xbox One S.
"While the trio of Switch titles at 11, 12 and 14 makes it clear that the great Nintendo titles are selling in similar numbers - capped off by the amount of hardware in the market."
The chart is for physical sales only, so it only represents around half of the market and doesn't take into account digital sales.
THE TOP 100 GAMES OF 2017...
1 FIFA 18 - Electronic Arts
2 Call Of Duty: WWII - Activision Blizzard
3 Grand Theft Auto V - Rockstar/Take 2
4 Assassin's Creed Origins - Ubisoft
5 Star Wars Battlefront II - Electronic Arts
6 Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy - Activision Blizzard
7 Destiny 2 - Activision Blizzard
8 Gran Turismo: Sport - Sony Computer Ent.
9 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands - Ubisoft
10 Horizon Zero Dawn - Sony Computer Ent.
11 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Nintendo
12 Super Mario Odyssey - Nintendo
13 Forza Horizon 3 - Microsoft
14 The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild - Nintendo
15 Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare - Activision Blizzard
16 Lego Worlds - Warner Bros. Interactive
17 FIFA 17 - Electronic Arts
18 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - Capcom
19 Fallout 4 - Bethesda Softworks
20 Forza Motorsport 7 - Microsoft
21 Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - Sony Computer Ent.
22 WWE 2K18 - 2K/Take Two
23 Rocket League - 505 Games
24 Middle-earth: Shadow Of War - Warner Bros. Interactive
25 Mass Effect: Andromeda - Ea Games
26 Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Siege - Ubisoft
27 Minecraft: Xbox Edition - Microsoft
28 Doom - Bethesda Softworks
29 Overwatch - Blizzard
30 For Honor - Ubisoft
31 Need For Speed Payback - Ea Games
32 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - Bethesda Softworks
33 Battlefield 1 - Ea Games
34 The Sims 4 - Ea Games
35 South Park: The Fractured But Whole - Ubisoft
36 Injustice 2 - Warner Bros. Interactive
37 Dishonored 2 - Bethesda Softworks
38 Minecraft: Playstation Edition - Sony Computer Ent.
39 1-2 Switch - Nintendo
40 Splatoon 2 - Nintendo
41 Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle - Ubisoft
42 Lego City Undercover - Warner Bros. Interactive
43 Prey - Bethesda Softworks
44 Playerunknown's Battlegrounds - Microsoft
45 Playstation VR Worlds - Sony Computer Ent.
46 Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 - Warner Bros. Interactive
47 Pokemon Ultra Sun - Nintendo
48 NBA 2K18 - 2K/Take Two
49 F1 2017 - Codemasters
50 Overwatch: Game Of The Year Edition - Blizzard
51 Pokemon Ultra Moon - Nintendo
52 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Ed. - Bethesda Softworks
53 Sonic Forces - Sega
54 Watch Dogs 2 - Ubisoft
55 WWE 2k17 - 2K/Take Two
56 Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Warner Bros. Interactive
57 Just Dance 2018 - Ubisoft
58 Mario Kart 7 - Nintendo
59 Sniper Elite 4 - Sold Out Sales & Marketing
60 Mafia III - Take Two
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61 Hitman: The Complete First Season - Square Enix Europe
62 The Lego Ninjago Movie Videogame - Warner Bros. Interactive
63 Dirt 4 - Codemasters
64 New Super Mario Bros. 2 - Nintendo
65 Pokemon Sun - Nintendo
66 Tekken 7 - Bandai Namco Entertainment
67 The Evil Within 2 - Bethesda Softworks
68 L.A. Noire - Take 2
69 Lego Marvel Avengers - Warner Bros. Interactive
70 Tom Clancy's The Division - Ubisoft
71 Uncharted 4: A Thief's End - Sony Computer Ent.
72 Steep - Ubisoft
73 Hidden Agenda - Sony Computer Ent.
74 Gears Of War 4 Microsoft
75 Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 Konami
76 Knowledge Is Power Sony Computer Ent.
77 Just Dance 2017 - Ubisoft
78 Ark: Survival Evolved - Studio Wildcard
79 Miitopia - Nintendo
80 Final Fantasy Xv - Square Enix Europe
81 Wipeout: Omega Collection - Sony Computer Ent.
82 Football Manager 2018 - Sega
83 Lego Jurassic World - Warner Bros. Interactive
84 Pokemon Moon - Nintendo
85 Minecraft: Story Mode - Complete Adv. - Telltale Games
86 Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection - Ubisoft
87 Rayman Legends - Ubisoft
88 Micro Machines: World Series - Codemasters
89 Minecraft: Story Mode - Season 2 - Telltale Games
90 Tomodachi Life - Nintendo
91 Titanfall 2 - Electronic Arts
92 Star Wars Battlefront - Electronic Arts
93 Halo Wars 2 - Microsoft
94 Super Mario Maker - Nintendo
95 Yooka-laylee - Team 17
96 Farpoint - Sony Computer Ent.
97 The Witcher Iii: Wild Hunt Goty Edition - Bandai Namco Entertainment
98 NBA 2K17 - 2K/Take Two
99 Halo 5: Guardians - Microsoft
100 Persona 5 - Atlus