Halo CER did better than expected in the U.K.
Here are the sales results.
http://www.zeldainformer.com/2011/11/uk-weekly-software-sales-ending-november-19th-mario-and-zelda-chillin-in-the-top-10.html

cant believe halo beat zelda, i have seen countless zelda adds and not one for halo. halo sold roughly 130,000 in the uk this week.

Does Quake 4 is a current Gen game !?!...bcs even if it's been release on Xbox360 fo me Halo CE An. looks better. So if a remake beat a game of a current gen on graphics and Gameplay make it a current gen game !?!

Honestly, I Know that quake 4 was release at the beginning of this gen But god the improvemement make it on par with a lot of current gen tittle. Of course not on par with AAA but good enough in gameplay and graphics to beat many 360 games.

Nope Halo Debuted at less than 100k and Zelda debuted less than 55k as Fifa 12 sold 55K all formats this week and Zelda was below that.

Saints row 3, MW3 and AC sales are below:

[ALL] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - ~256,000 (-87%) / ~2,230,000

[ALL] Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft) - ~229,000
[ALL] Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft) - ~238,000 (AC:B x 1.04)

[ALL] Saints Row 2 (THQ) - ~72,000
[ALL] Saints Row: The Third (THQ) - ~103,000 (SR2 x 1.43)

Ten years later, Halo: Combat Evolved is still the best FPS of all time. It's also still one of the best games of all time.

Goldeneye says hi. 

I don't know about this gen, I prefer games like COD for the multiplayer and Gears for the campaigns. Last gen Halo was definitely the best shooter with Timesplitters 2 a close second.

damn, that is disappointing. where did you get those figues? do you know skyrims uk sales? are these sales from all formats?

Goldeneye was both popular and a rare great FPS on console but due to timing and the console it was on it would never have had the impact of a Half Life in general or Halo on console.

Halo with MP and the emerging Live network paved the way for the huge growth in FPS/online (love it or hate it) on console instead of PC and set the path for 360/PS3 and where we are today.

Goldeneye by comparison was a bright gem that would have (IMHO) led to nothing much further regarding FPS/console titles, Nintento certainly were not (and only with Wii U may be) on a path that would have allowed Goldeneye to have a big legacy.  That's why Halo (rightly I'd argue) get's the accolades for popularizing the genre and in particular online on console and not Goldeneye.

On PC of course FPS, etc. was already well defined ahead of Goldeneye and only until relatively recently with the launch of 360 and the huge switch of consumer preference in US/UK in particular to console rather than PC for FPS/online has the legacy started primarily with Halo arrived.

It was a great game thought, influenual on others for sure, and popular with sales of over 8 million - but on a Nintendo platform it was always going to be an outlier for FPS/online than anything else - IMHO of course :)

As a huge Halo fan and a person that's been playing Anniversary since release I disagree. I mean the game is still tons of fun but nostalgia aside it doesn't beat out the current top games of this gen. The game holds up very well against today's games which is a testament to how well it was made but that's about it.