Game Releases · 2002

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13 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: playstation1 genre: sports

PlayStation 2002

Sony · 1994–2006 · 1,699 games all-time on RAWG

PlayStation is a home video game console released by Sony in 1994. Its release also marks the start of the fifth generation in the industry. Also known as PlayStation 1 or PSX. There are two main revisions of PS1 — PlayStation and PSone with the latter being released 6 years afterward the first one. It was the first console to introduce the full-sized direction arrows instead of D-pad which was, in fact, one button with the ability to be pushed in four directions. The game lineup was consistent, too, as there were many titles which were remastered and reinvented later on even in decades after their initial launch. Nonetheless the hardware problems and regional differences regarding the change of O and X button functions, the console has quickly gained popularity and sold 102 million copies worldwide. The hardware features like slots for gamepad has also made their way into the games — for instance defeating the boss in MGS is only possible by changing the slot of the gamepad.

Releases in 2002
13
Release window
31 Jan 2002 → 25 Oct 2002
Busiest month
April 2002 3
Avg user rating
3.96of 5, 5 ranked, 5 provisional
Top Metacritic
Pro Evolution Soccer 2 93

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 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 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.

5 ranked (6+ votes) 5 provisional (1–5 votes) 3 never rated 234 votes counted 3.96 mean of ranked
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Ranked 10 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 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 23 Oct 2002 · Beenox, Vicarious Visions, Neversoft · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Classic Macintosh 4.17 4.25 raw 149 MC 91
2 Pro Evolution Soccer 2 25 Apr 2002 · Konami Digital Entertainment, KCET · PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4.04 4.15 raw 13 MC 93
3 FIFA Football 2003 25 Oct 2002 · Electronic Arts Canada, Exient Entertainment · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.87 4.05 raw 22 —
4 Klonoa Beach Volleyball 25 Apr 2002 · NAMCO · PlayStation 3.83 ~4.25 raw 4 —
5 NBA Live 2003 8 Oct 2002 · Electronic Arts Canada, Electronic Arts Sports, NuFX · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube 3.82 3.92 raw 12 —
6 Super Shot Soccer 14 Jun 2002 · Tecmo · PlayStation 3.82 ~5.00 raw 1 —
7 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 —
8 Madden NFL 2003 12 Aug 2002 · Electronic Arts Tiburon, Budcat Creations · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.72 ~2.00 raw 2 —
9 2002 FIFA World Cup 22 Apr 2002 · Electronic Arts Canada, Intelligent Games, Tose Software, Creations · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube 3.66 3.41 raw 27 —
10 Rayman Rush 8 Mar 2002 · Ubi Soft Shanghai · PlayStation 3.63 ~3.00 raw 3 MC 62

Never rated 3 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.