Game Releases · 2002

Ranked by user rating, best first. Data from the RAWG API, fetched 2026-09-16T22:11.

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4 games (of 1,131 in 2002) genre: adventure developer: nintendo

All platforms 2002

Releases in 2002
4
Release window
3 May 2002 → 2 Dec 2002
Busiest month
May 2002 1
Avg user rating
4.23of 5, 3 ranked
Top Metacritic
Super Mario Sunshine 92

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 4 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 — 1 of these games have one.

3 ranked (6+ votes) 0 provisional (1–5 votes) 1 never rated 347 votes counted 4.23 mean of ranked
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Ranked 3 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 Super Mario Sunshine 25 Aug 2002 · Nintendo · GameCube 4.24 4.30 raw 302 MC 92
2 Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak 3 May 2002 · Nintendo, Pax Softnica · Game Boy Advance 3.89 4.50 raw 8 —
3 The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords 2 Dec 2002 · Capcom, Nintendo · Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance 3.83 3.89 raw 37 —

Never rated 1 game · no votes on RAWG

No user has rated these, so there is no score to show or recover. Ordered by release date, newest first.