The game's popularity has led to labels such as ' Halo clone' and ' Halo killer,' applied respectively to games either similar to or anticipated to be better than it. Many game magazines have praised Halo as one of the best and most important games of all time. The game has been praised for elements such as its story, the variety of strategies players can employ, and its multiplayer mode however, the repetition of its level design was frequently criticized by reviewers. Players battle various aliens as they attempt to uncover the secrets of the eponymous Halo, a ring-shaped artificial world. The player is accompanied by Cortana, an artificial intelligence who occupies the Master Chief's neural interface. Halo is set in the twenty-sixth century, with the player assuming the role of the Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced supersoldier. The game was later released as an Xbox Original for download onto an Xbox 360 HDD. With more than five million copies sold worldwide as of November 9, 2005, Microsoft released versions of the game for Microsoft Windows ( ported by Gearbox Software) and Mac OS X in 2003, and the surrounding storyline was adapted and elaborated into a series of novels, comic books, and live action web shorts. The first game of the Halo franchise, it was released on Novemas an exclusive launch title for the Xbox gaming system, and is considered the platform's ' killer app'.

Halo: Combat Evolved, also referred to as Halo: CE, Halo 1, or simply Halo, is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios.

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