Ranked by user rating, best first. Data from the
RAWG API, fetched 2026-09-16T22:11.
160 games
(of 1,131 in 2002)platform: gamecube
GameCube 2002
Nintendo · 2001–2007 · 673 games all-time on RAWG · 160 of the year's 1,131 releases (14%)
GameCube is Nintendo’s fourth major home video game console and a successor to the Nintendo 64. It was the first Nintendo console to use optical disks as the primary storage medium. Unlike its competitors, Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox, it used mini-DVD format instead of regular DVDs which resulted in console lacking DVD-player feature. The GameCube controller was drastically different from previous Nintendo controllers and used an asymmetrical design of its face buttons. The wireless version of the controller called WaveBird was released in 2002. The GameCube became Nintendo’s worst selling home console at the time with about 22 million copies sold worldwide. However, it was praised for its game library with many games gaining widespread acclaim from both critics and players.
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Some of the most notable of them include: Paper Mario: A Thousand-Year Door, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Pikmin, and Super Monkey Ball among others. The best-selling game on the console is Super Smash Bros. Melee. The game sold 7 million copies and had an active tournament community up to this day.
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 59
of the 160 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 3.84 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 —
47 of these games have
one.
54
ranked (6+ votes)59
provisional (1–5 votes)47
never rated6,049 votes counted3.84 mean of ranked
Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw
mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward
this set's mean of 3.84 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.
1Resident Evil (2002)22 Mar 2002 · Capcom · PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, GameCube4.30 4.37 raw326MC 88
11Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets5 Nov 2002 · Eurocom, KnowWonder, EA UK, Griptonite, Argonaut · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Classic Macintosh4.07 4.11 raw398MC 74
12Soul Caliber 25 Jul 2002 · Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube4.05 ~4.00 raw3MC 92
13Burnout 2: Point of Impact30 Sep 2002 · Criterion Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube4.03 4.09 raw35MC 88
15Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 230 Sep 2002 · Electronic Arts Black Box, Electronic Arts Seattle, Electronic Arts Bellevue · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.98 4.00 raw282MC 81
16Hitman 2: Silent Assassin1 Oct 2002 · Square Enix, IO Interactive · PC, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.95 3.95 raw656MC 87
17Medal of Honor: Frontline28 May 2002 · Electronic Arts, Electronic Arts Los Angeles, Danger Close Games · Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.95 3.91 raw112MC 88
18NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona11 Nov 2002 · Monster Games · PlayStation 2, GameCube3.93 ~3.00 raw2MC 84
20Pac-Man World 2 (2002)24 Feb 2002 · NAMCO, Full Fat, Namco USA, Namco Hometek · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.92 4.03 raw32—
21Sonic Mega Collection10 Nov 2002 · Sonic Team · PlayStation 2, GameCube3.91 4.40 raw10MC 75
22FIFA Football 200325 Oct 2002 · Electronic Arts Canada, Exient Entertainment · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.91 4.05 raw22—
23Sega Soccer Slam18 Mar 2002 · Visual Concepts, Electronic Arts Black Box, Black Box Games · Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.89 ~4.67 raw3—
25BloodRayne15 Oct 2002 · Sony Interactive Entertainment, Terminal Reality · PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Classic Macintosh3.88 3.92 raw265MC 65
26FIFA 20035 Nov 2002 · Electronic Arts Canada · PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.88 3.92 raw36—
28Freekstyle17 Jun 2002 · Full Fat, Page 44 Studios, Hypnos Entertainment · PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.87 ~4.33 raw3—
29Nickelodeon Party Blast30 Oct 2002 · Data Design Interactive · PC, Xbox, GameCube3.87 ~5.00 raw1—
30Big Mutha Truckers27 Nov 2002 · Eutechnyx, Raylight Studios · PC, Nintendo DS, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.87 4.00 raw8—
31NBA Live 20038 Oct 2002 · Electronic Arts Canada, Electronic Arts Sports, NuFX · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube3.86 3.92 raw12—
32Drome Racers20 Nov 2002 · small, Möbius Entertainment, Attention to Detail, LEGO Interactive · PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.86 ~4.00 raw5—
33Mario Party 421 Oct 2002 · Hudson Soft · GameCube3.86 3.96 raw50MC 70
64James Bond 007: NightFire19 Nov 2002 · Aspyr Media, Gearbox Software, Eurocom, JV Games · PC, macOS, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.81 3.76 raw94MC 78
72NHL Hitz 200316 Sep 2002 · Electronic Arts Black Box, Exient Entertainment, Black Box Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.79 3.33 raw6—
73Aggressive Inline28 May 2002 · Full Fat, Underground Development, Z-Axis Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.79 3.33 raw6—
75NBA 2K37 Oct 2002 · Visual Concepts · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.79 ~1.00 raw1—
76NBA Courtside 200213 Jan 2002 · Left Field Productions · GameCube3.79 ~1.00 raw1—
77X-Men: Next Dimension15 Oct 2002 · Paradox Development Studio, Exakt Entertainment, Midway Los Angeles · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.79 ~3.20 raw5—
78Taz: Wanted17 Sep 2002 · Blitz Games · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.78 4.04 raw26MC 62
81Madden NFL 200312 Aug 2002 · Electronic Arts Tiburon, Budcat Creations · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.77 ~2.00 raw2—
82UFC: Throwdown3 Jun 2002 · GENKI, Capcom Production Studio 3 · PlayStation 2, GameCube3.77 ~2.00 raw2—
94ZooCube5 May 2002 · Graphic State, PuzzleKings · PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.71 ~2.67 raw3MC 67
952002 FIFA World Cup22 Apr 2002 · Electronic Arts Canada, Intelligent Games, Tose Software, Creations · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube3.69 3.41 raw27—
96Dead to Rights3 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 Advance3.69 3.47 raw36—
97Superman: Shadow of Apokolips25 Sep 2002 · Infogrames Entertainment, Infogrames Sheffield House · PlayStation 2, GameCube3.68 ~3.20 raw5MC 64
98Barbarian (2002)27 Jun 2002 · Saffire · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.67 ~1.00 raw1MC 63
99Spider-Man: The Movie1 May 2002 · Neversoft, LTI Gray Matter · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.67 3.58 raw170MC 77
100Star Wars Bounty Hunter19 Nov 2002 · Aspyr Media, LucasArts Entertainment, Disney Interactive Studios · PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.63 3.51 raw57MC 65
101Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance16 Nov 2002 · Midway Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.62 3.29 raw63MC 79
102Minority Report: Everybody Runs12 Nov 2002 · Treyarch, Torus Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.60 4.17 raw6MC 50
104Hot Wheels: Velocity X16 Oct 2002 · Beyond Games · PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.57 ~1.00 raw1MC 54
105Castleween29 Nov 2002 · Magic Pockets, DreamCatcher Interactive, Kalisto Entertainment · PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.55 ~3.50 raw2MC 50
106Turok: Evolution26 Aug 2002 · Acclaim Studios Austin, RFX Interactive, Super Happy Fun Fun · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.55 3.09 raw32—
107Die Hard: Vendetta15 Nov 2002 · Bits Studios · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.54 ~2.50 raw4MC 54
108Red Faction II14 Oct 2002 · THQ Nordic, Volition, Outrage Games, Cranky Pants Games · PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.52 3.44 raw172MC 64