Game Releases · 2002

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

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3 games (of 1,131 in 2002) genre: platformer developer: nintendo

All platforms 2002

Releases in 2002
3
Release window
25 Aug 2002 → 17 Nov 2002
Busiest month
August 2002 1
Avg user rating
4.17of 5, 3 ranked
Top Metacritic
Metroid Fusion 92
Most prolific developers
Platforms — 2 represented, top 2 shown. Click for hardware details.

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 3 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.

3 ranked (6+ votes) 0 provisional (1–5 votes) 0 never rated 530 votes counted 4.17 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 Metroid Fusion 17 Nov 2002 · Nintendo · Game Boy Advance 4.27 4.37 raw 201 MC 92
2 Super Mario Sunshine 25 Aug 2002 · Nintendo · GameCube 4.24 4.30 raw 302 MC 92
3 Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 20 Sep 2002 · Nintendo · Game Boy Advance 3.81 3.85 raw 27 —