Game Releases · 2002

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13 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: playstation3 genre: action

PlayStation 3 2002

Sony · 2006–2017 · 3,209 games all-time on RAWG

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

PS3 is a home gaming console released by Sony in 2006. There are three models of a system: original (also called "fat"), slim and super slim. They vary in weight, body materials, and Blu-ray drives. PS3 is the original successor of PS2 and predecessor of PS4. The system uses Dualshock 3 as gamepads.

More on PlayStation 3

Compared to its main competitor — Xbox 360, PS3 is often seen as more exclusive-oriented platform considering many unique IPs originating on it: The Last of Us, Uncharted and Resistance to say the least. The platform is first to feature Trophies system: an analog to Xbox'es Achievements but divided into categories: bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. Later on, for a game to pass the Sony authentification committee, the game must have had trophies. After PS Vita release there is also a Remote Play feature available allowing the player to broadcast the image to a remote Vita via the internet.

Releases in 2002
13
Release window
31 Jan 2002 → 24 Nov 2002
Busiest month
November 2002 5
Avg user rating
3.86of 5, 11 ranked, 2 provisional
Top Metacritic
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 91
Best known on PlayStation 3 (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 2 of the 13 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 this set's mean of 3.86 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 — 11 of these games have one.

11 ranked (6+ votes) 2 provisional (1–5 votes) 0 never rated 2,377 votes counted 3.86 mean of ranked
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Ranked 13 games with at least one vote

Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward this set's mean of 3.86 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 4.30 4.37 raw 326 MC 88
2 Ratchet & Clank (2002) 4 Nov 2002 · Insomniac Games · PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PS Vita 4.23 4.34 raw 161 MC 88
3 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 17 Nov 2002 · Ubisoft, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Shanghai, Gameloft, Ubisoft Annecy · PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Classic Macintosh 4.16 4.18 raw 497 MC 91
4 Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus 23 Sep 2002 · Sucker Punch Productions · PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PS Vita 4.08 4.16 raw 97 MC 86
5 Hitman 2: Silent Assassin 1 Oct 2002 · Square Enix, IO Interactive · PC, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.95 3.95 raw 656 MC 87
6 BloodRayne 15 Oct 2002 · Sony Interactive Entertainment, Terminal Reality · PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Classic Macintosh 3.88 3.92 raw 265 MC 65
7 Resident Evil Zero 12 Nov 2002 · Capcom · PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, GameCube 3.84 3.77 raw 106 MC 83
8 Contra: Shattered Soldier 22 Oct 2002 · Sony Interactive Entertainment, KCET · PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 3.83 3.73 raw 11 —
9 Rygar: The Legendary Adventure 24 Nov 2002 · Sony Interactive Entertainment · PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Wii 3.81 ~3.25 raw 4 —
10 Grandia Xtreme 31 Jan 2002 · GAME ARTS Co · PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 3.74 ~3.00 raw 3 MC 68
11 Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter 10 Mar 2002 · Disney Interactive Studios · PlayStation 4, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 3.72 3.05 raw 22 MC 80
12 Star Wars Bounty Hunter 19 Nov 2002 · Aspyr Media, LucasArts Entertainment, Disney Interactive Studios · PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.64 3.51 raw 57 MC 65
13 Red Faction II 14 Oct 2002 · THQ Nordic, Volition, Outrage Games, Cranky Pants Games · PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.53 3.44 raw 172 MC 64