Game Releases · 2002

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3 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: wii genre: adventure

Wii 2002

Nintendo · 2006–2013 · 2,238 games all-time on RAWG

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

Wii is Nintendo’s fifth major home video game console. It became a huge financial success for Nintendo with 101 million consoles sold worldwide. Unlike its competitors, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Wii could not display HD graphics and targeted broader demographic of casual players. The main feature of the console was its motion-sensing central controller – Wii Remote that also had the functionality of a pointing device. Most of its lifespan, the console packages included Wii Sports game, which also was one of the Wii’s selling point. The game was marketed as easy to learn entertainment for the whole family. Most of Nintendo’s main franchises got their installments on the Wii most notable of which are Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Mario Kart Wii. The first model of Wii also was backward compatible with the majority of GameCube games and had GameCube Controller ports.

Releases in 2002
3
Release window
22 Oct 2002 → 24 Nov 2002
Busiest month
November 2002 2
Avg user rating
4.38of 5, 2 ranked, 1 provisional
Top Metacritic
Metroid Prime 97

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 1 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.

2 ranked (6+ votes) 1 provisional (1–5 votes) 0 never rated 454 votes counted 4.38 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 Prime 17 Nov 2002 · Retro Studios · Wii, GameCube 4.29 4.35 raw 267 MC 97
2 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Justice for All 22 Oct 2002 · Capcom Production Studio 4 · PC, iOS, Android, Nintendo DS, Wii, Game Boy Advance 4.24 4.41 raw 183 MC 76
3 Rygar: The Legendary Adventure 24 Nov 2002 · Sony Interactive Entertainment · PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Wii 3.75 ~3.25 raw 4 —