Nate on 01 October 2007
To answer the orginal posters question. Microsoft spent an insane amount of money (I think $500M) in marketing on the intial rollout of the XBOX. The problem was that all it had in the first six months were PS2 ports, a few shitty first party titles, a ho-hum OddWorld game, and Halo. The early adopters used Halo as a means to justify their otherwise foolish purchase. From there it grew into the absurd hype train that it is today. It's easily the most overhyped game series of all time. I don't know about overrated tho, GTA has it easily beat there.
