Game Releases · 2002

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2 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: nintendo-switch genre: action developer: capcom

Nintendo Switch 2002

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Note: these 2002 titles predate the hardware — RAWG lists later ports and re-releases under the original release date.

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Releases in 2002
2
Release window
22 Mar 2002 → 12 Nov 2002
Busiest month
March 2002 1
Avg user rating
4.07of 5, 2 ranked
Top Metacritic
Resident Evil (2002) 88
Top genres
Most prolific developers
Best known on Nintendo Switch (all-time, not 2002)

Why some games have no rating

RAWG publishes an average score only once a game has collected 6 or more user votes. Below that it returns 0.0 — while still returning the full vote breakdown. So a game nobody has ever rated and a game with five “exceptional” votes arrive looking identical.

Those suppressed scores are recomputed from the breakdown, which recovers 0 of the 2 games here that would otherwise read as unrated. The rest have no votes at all — mostly obscure, regional or unported titles. That is a real absence, not a gap in the fetch: there is nothing to retrieve.

Everything with a vote ranks in one table, because the order is weighted rather than a raw mean: a score is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 (too few ranked games here to take a local one) in proportion to how thin its evidence is, so a two-vote 5.0 settles near the middle instead of on top. Metacritic joins at half that weight where it exists — 2 of these games have one.

2 ranked (6+ votes) 0 provisional (1–5 votes) 0 never rated 432 votes counted 4.07 mean of ranked
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Ranked 2 games with at least one vote

Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 in proportion to how few votes it rests on, and Metacritic is folded in at half that weight where it exists. A 6-vote 4.67 therefore ranks below a 2,100-vote 4.45 — the raw figure is shown under each score, and sorting by raw score ignores the weighting entirely.

Bars show how the votes split — Exceptional, Recommended, Meh, Skip. A ~ on the raw figure marks a score recomputed from a breakdown RAWG suppresses.

1 Resident Evil (2002) 22 Mar 2002 · Capcom · PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, GameCube 4.29 4.37 raw 326 MC 88
2 Resident Evil Zero 12 Nov 2002 · Capcom · PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, GameCube 3.83 3.77 raw 106 MC 83