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The game's popularity has led to labels such as 'Halo clone' and 'Halo killer', applied to games either similar to, or anticipated to be better than, Halo. The game was tenth on GameSpy's 'Top 25 Most Overrated Games of All Time' one reviewer stated that the game 'recycl the same areas over and over until you were bored to tears.'

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For example, Edge gave Halo a full score of ten out of ten, only the fourth such designation in the magazine's 12-year history. Widely considered to be one of the best, and most influential,innovative first-person shooters of all time, Halo's acclaim rivals that of GoldenEye 007 and Half-Life. The game has been called 'easy to learn,' and has been praised for its 'engaging story'. Players battle various types of aliens on foot or in vehicles as they attempt to uncover the secrets of the Halo. The Master Chief is accompanied by Cortana, an artificial intelligence who occupies the neural implant between the battle armor and the Master Chief's brain. In the game, the player assumes the role of the Master Chief, a cyborg 'super-soldier' with battle armor. Halo sits at a Lagrange point between a planet and its moon. The titular Halo is an enormous, ring-shaped artificial space habitat, and, according to Bungie Studios, has a diameter of ten thousand kilometers. With more than five million copies sold worldwide, Halo is second only to its sequel, Halo 2, in sales for the Xbox video game console. It was released on Novemas a launch title for the Xbox gaming system, and is considered that platform's 'killer application'.

Halo: Combat Evolved, or simply Halo, is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie Studios, and the first installment of the Halo trilogy.