About that Halo PDF guide for IGN Insiders we reported yesterday. Claude Errera let us know that it is indeed the Halo walkthrough at IGN Guides, minus the screenshots.

Master_Chief (where do you suppose he got that name from?) of Xbox Xtreme has written a short but sweet Halo review. It describes Halo as [non-stop] action based around combat, combat and more combat and mind blowing . Overall, Halo scored 9.5 out of 10. (Thanks HBO)

Xbox City has reviewed Halo and found it to be a great game. So great, in fact, that it received the X Factor award; an unexplained title apparently given to the Xbox's best games. Halo scored 4.8 out of 5. (Thanks HBO)

Xbox Gamers's own Akuma has written a Halo review. The game was praised for its immaculate sound and gameplay as well as in all other reviewed criteria. Xbox Gamers scored Halo 9.9 out of 10. (Thanks HBO)

Krillian Hex of Xbox Gaming got a hold of Halo and gave it an extremely positive review:

Interestingly enough, PC Magazine has reviewed the Xbox version of Halo, though it is an extremely short article:

Byron Hinson at ActiveXbox has posted a Halo review, and he gives the game a 95% rating:

The Armchair Empire has given Halo a rating of 9 out of 10, lauding it especially for the graphics, while griping a bit about a few framerate issues:

Halo is listed as a choice on VoodooExtreme's Game of the Year poll. In fact.. it's far and away in the lead, with a whopping 46% of the vote, trouncing the next nearest competitors, GTA3 (14%), MGS2 (11%) and Smash Bros. Melee (5%).

Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO who posted it after a heads-up from Mhaddy of The Junkyard.

IGN Xbox has made available a Halo PDF guide for its Insiders. No word on whether it's simply the Halo walkthrough at IGN Guides available in PDF format or if it's something entirely different. We won't know until an Insider gives us the scoop.

Remember Halo's review in the Official Xbox Magazine that we reported about a while ago? In case you missed it, HBO has added the scans of the review to its site.

Kudos to Louis Wu of HBO for scanning the Halo review from the November 2001 issue of Game Informer. They called it the Xbox essential and gave it a 9.5 out of 10 rating. The bottom line? [Halo is] one of the most impressive, if not THE most impressive, first-person shooter consoles have ever seen.

Another Halo review has seen the light of day, this time at 123 Xbox. Halo got near-perfect scores in every category; in fact, its lowest score was 9.7 out of 10 in the life cycle rubric. Overall, Halo scored 9.8 out of 10. (Thanks HBO)

PlanetXbox is reporting that The NPD Group has stated the Xbox and Halo are selling tremendously well. PlanetXbox's story reads: