Game Releases · 2002

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17 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: xbox-old genre: shooter

Xbox 2002

Microsoft · 2001–2009 · 881 games all-time on RAWG

Xbox is a home video game console released by Microsoft in 2001 and the first console made by the corporation. There are no hardware options to the system, but controller variations exist — except for the initial Xbox controller there was smaller Xbox controller S smaller released exclusively in Japan following the stereotype of people having little hands there. , so Microsoft was forced to release the controller worldwide and later even to include it in basic Xbox kit. Xbox Live online gaming service was also launched initially for Xbox. Nevertheless, the console experienced problems with having the support of first-party, so they decided to buy Rare company specialized on old Nintendo games. However, some outstanding titles like Ninja Gaiden, Fable and Halo 2 was released on the platform which pumped it its status and allowed Microsoft to reinforce their position in the competition with PlayStation 2.

Releases in 2002
17
Release window
1 Mar 2002 → 19 Nov 2002
Busiest month
November 2002 5
Avg user rating
3.87of 5, 12 ranked, 5 provisional
Top Metacritic
TimeSplitters 2 90

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 5 of the 17 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 3.87 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 — 13 of these games have one.

12 ranked (6+ votes) 5 provisional (1–5 votes) 0 never rated 2,324 votes counted 3.87 mean of ranked
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Ranked 17 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 3.87 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 Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance 5 Nov 2002 · Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, Success · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2 4.39 4.48 raw 353 MC 82
2 Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast 1 Mar 2002 · Aspyr Media, Raven Software, Lucasfilm · PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, macOS, Xbox, GameCube, Classic Macintosh 4.17 4.19 raw 459 MC 89
3 TimeSplitters 2 9 Oct 2002 · Free Radical Design, Crytek UK · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube 4.15 4.29 raw 55 MC 90
4 Hitman 2: Silent Assassin 1 Oct 2002 · Square Enix, IO Interactive · PC, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.96 3.95 raw 656 MC 87
5 Medal of Honor: Frontline 28 May 2002 · Electronic Arts, Electronic Arts Los Angeles, Danger Close Games · Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.95 3.91 raw 112 MC 88
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 Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix 20 May 2002 · Raven Software · PC, Xbox 3.84 3.82 raw 67 —
8 Robotech: Battlecry 25 Sep 2002 · Vicious Cycle Software · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.84 ~3.67 raw 3 MC 73
9 James Bond 007: NightFire 19 Nov 2002 · Aspyr Media, Gearbox Software, Eurocom, JV Games · PC, macOS, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.82 3.76 raw 94 MC 78
10 Serious Sam: Xbox 10 Nov 2002 · Croteam · Xbox 3.72 ~1.75 raw 4 —
11 Dead to Rights 3 Jun 2002 · Bandai Namco Entertainment, NAMCO, Torus Games, The Bitmap Brothers, Namco USA, Namco Hometek · PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.70 3.47 raw 36 —
12 RLH: Run Like Hell 27 Sep 2002 · Interplay Entertainment · Xbox, PlayStation 2 3.64 ~3.00 raw 3 MC 58
13 The Terminator: Dawn of Fate 1 Sep 2002 · Paradigm Entertainment · Xbox, PlayStation 2 3.63 ~2.67 raw 3 MC 58
14 Minority Report: Everybody Runs 12 Nov 2002 · Treyarch, Torus Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.62 4.17 raw 6 MC 50
15 Turok: Evolution 26 Aug 2002 · Acclaim Studios Austin, RFX Interactive, Super Happy Fun Fun · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.57 3.09 raw 32 —
16 Die Hard: Vendetta 15 Nov 2002 · Bits Studios · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.56 ~2.50 raw 4 MC 54
17 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