Game Releases · 2002

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57 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: pc genre: racing

PC 2002

562,545 games all-time on RAWG

PC games, or personal computer games, started with the video game crash of 1983. PC games became popular after the development of the microprocessor and microcomputer. Some of the first PC games were Bertie the Brain, OXO and Spacewar!

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As the 3D graphics accelerators became faster and CPU power improved, PC games became more realistic and more accessible to produce. The PC market sales rocketed in the 80s when IBM computers and sound cards were generated. The platform involves different peripherals, gaming hardware, and software. These are mouse and keyboard; gamepads and motion controllers aren't obligatory, but still popularly accepted. Better hardware improves the game's accuracy; it usually lets the players use more NPCs than equivalents on other platforms. With the platform, the players can perform every sort of game. For example, shooters are easy to play due to the mouse controllers. However, the main reason for the PC games popularity is their lower prices and the backward compatibility with older titles, which leaves much to be desired on cosoles.

Releases in 2002
57
Release window
1 Jan 2002 → 27 Dec 2002
Busiest month
November 2002 9
Avg user rating
3.58of 5, 9 ranked, 32 provisional
Top Metacritic
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 81

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 32 of the 57 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 — 3 of these games have one.

9 ranked (6+ votes) 32 provisional (1–5 votes) 16 never rated 444 votes counted 3.58 mean of ranked
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Ranked 41 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 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 30 Sep 2002 · Electronic Arts Black Box, Electronic Arts Seattle, Electronic Arts Bellevue · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.98 4.00 raw 282 MC 81
2 Street Legal 1 Nov 2002 · Invictus Games · PC 3.88 ~5.00 raw 4 —
3 Matchbox Rescue Rigs 1 Mar 2002 · THQ · PC 3.84 ~5.00 raw 2 —
4 Moto Racer 3 Gold Edition 31 Jan 2002 · Delphine Software International · PC 3.82 ~4.33 raw 3 —
5 Big Mutha Truckers 27 Nov 2002 · Eutechnyx, Raylight Studios · PC, Nintendo DS, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.82 4.00 raw 8 —
6 Island Xtreme Stunts 22 Sep 2002 · Silicon Dreams Studio, Silicon Dreams Studios · PC, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance 3.82 ~4.50 raw 2 —
7 Armobiles 1 Sep 2002 · Ganymede Technologies · PC 3.82 ~4.50 raw 2 —
8 Bandits: Phoenix Rising 1 Oct 2002 · GRIN · PC 3.82 3.92 raw 12 —
9 Whiteout 26 Nov 2002 · Vicarious Visions, Driver-Inter · PC 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
10 Beam Breakers 1 Nov 2002 · Similis · PC 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
11 USAR Hooters Pro Cup Racing 1 Oct 2002 · Hoplite Research · PC 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
12 Buzzing Cars 1 Aug 2002 · Epsitec · PC 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
13 Micro Tracks 1 Aug 2002 · Idigicon · PC 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
14 Midnight Racing: Long Night 1 Jul 2002 · IncaGold · PC 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
15 Crisis Team: Ambulance Driver 1 Mar 2002 · Antidote Entertainment · PC 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
16 Cabela's 4x4 Off-Road Adventure 2 1 Feb 2002 · Clever's Games · PC 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
17 Escape! 1 Jan 2002 · Nuclear Nova Software, AMA, Halfheartd Games, Sapphire Create., Legion Arcadia · PC, Android 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
18 Drome Racers 20 Nov 2002 · small, Möbius Entertainment, Attention to Detail, LEGO Interactive · PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.81 ~4.00 raw 5 —
19 Moorhuhn Kart 18 Nov 2002 · GeekPit · PC, macOS, PlayStation 3.81 3.88 raw 8 —
20 Autobahn Raser 4 15 Nov 2002 · Davilex Games · PC, PlayStation 2 3.80 ~4.00 raw 2 —
21 Michael Schumacher Racing World Kart 2002 1 Aug 2002 · Radon Labs, TerraTools Computer Creations, Nebula Device · PC, PlayStation 3.80 ~4.00 raw 2 —
22 Bumper Wars 1 Jan 2002 · Boston Animation · PC 3.80 ~4.00 raw 2 —
23 NASCAR Thunder 2003 19 Sep 2002 · Electronic Arts Sports, Budcat Creations, Image Space · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube 3.80 ~4.00 raw 1 —
24 NASCAR Racing 2002 Season 1 Mar 2002 · Papyrus Racing Games · PC 3.80 ~4.00 raw 1 —
25 Live for Speed 18 Aug 2002 · LFS Team · PC 3.79 ~3.75 raw 4 —
26 US Racer 1 Jan 2002 · Davilex Games · PC 3.78 ~3.50 raw 2 —
27 Papyrus: The Pharaoh's Challenge 1 Oct 2002 · Digital Reality · PC 3.78 ~3.00 raw 1 —
28 Test Drive (2002) 29 May 2002 · Pitbull Syndicate · PC 3.77 ~3.50 raw 4 —
29 Grand Prix 4 20 Jun 2002 · Simergy · PC 3.77 3.57 raw 7 —
30 Antz Extreme Racing 26 Jul 2002 · Magic Pockets, Supersonic Software · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance 3.76 ~3.00 raw 2 —
31 Hooters Road Trip 25 Mar 2002 · Hoplite Research · PC, PlayStation 3.76 ~3.00 raw 2 —
32 MotoGP: Ultimate Racing Technology 1 Jun 2002 · Climax · PC 3.76 ~3.40 raw 5 —
33 RalliSport Challenge 1 Jan 2002 · Digital Illusions · PC 3.76 ~3.40 raw 5 —
34 Knight Rider: The Game 31 Mar 2002 · Davilex Games · PC, PlayStation 2 3.75 3.43 raw 7 —
35 V8 Challenge 1 May 2002 · Digital Illusions · PC 3.75 ~3.00 raw 3 —
36 Williams F1 Team Driver 1 Jan 2002 · KnowWonder · PC 3.72 ~2.00 raw 2 —
37 F1 2002 1 Jul 2002 · Image Space · PC, PlayStation 2 3.70 3.00 raw 7 —
38 Total Immersion Racing 1 Nov 2002 · Razorworks · PC 3.66 ~2.00 raw 4 —
39 Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel 15 Aug 2002 · SCS Software, Sunstorm Interactive, Cosmi Valusoft · PC 3.62 3.06 raw 16 —
40 RC Cars 14 Nov 2002 · Creat Studio · PC 3.61 3.37 raw 27 MC 65
41 Hot Wheels: Velocity X 16 Oct 2002 · Beyond Games · PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.53 ~1.00 raw 1 MC 54

Never rated 16 games · no votes on RAWG

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