✓ Fits the third-person shooters cluster, with shooter, third-person shooting and multiplayer gameplay
≠ Stands apart with melee combat, ranged combat and combat tactical, while skipping sports simulation
Halo is a franchise of first-person shooters that is set in the far future, on the frontiers of colonized planets, in a war with the Covenant. But Halo: Spartan Assault takes the formula and changes one element of the setting.
Where it drifts furthest from BattleCore Arena: visuals.
It predates BattleCore Arena by 12 years, with what that implies technically.