Game Releases · 2002

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18 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: xbox360

Xbox 360 2002

Microsoft · 2005–2016 · 2,833 games all-time on RAWG · 18 of the year's 1,131 releases (2%)

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

Xbox 360 is a home video game console released by Microsoft in 2005. There are three hardware variations to the system's body: original, slim and E versions. They primarily differ with internal storage capacity and size as well as malware immunity — the first installments bore an overheat defect. The central controller is Xbox 360 gamepad featuring either wired and wireless options with the latter being powered by AA batteries. The controller is widely regarded as the best one in the seventh generations with the only primary competitor of it was PS3 DualShock 3 with awkward ergonomics. During the existence period of a console, Kinect was released. It is the software which tracks the movements of the players allowing them to synchronize their movements with their avatar's. The notable thing is Kinect was later used in surprising fields other than the games: medicine, sports and science.

Releases in 2002
18
Release window
9 Jan 2002 → 17 Nov 2002
Busiest month
October 2002 5
Avg user rating
3.96of 5, 12 ranked, 4 provisional
Top Metacritic
Soul Caliber 2 92
Best known on Xbox 360 (all-time, not 2002)

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 4 of the 18 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 3.96 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 — 11 of these games have one.

12 ranked (6+ votes) 4 provisional (1–5 votes) 2 never rated 3,882 votes counted 3.96 mean of ranked
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Ranked 16 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 3.96 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 The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 1 May 2002 · Bethesda Game Studios · PC, Xbox 360, Xbox 4.35 4.37 raw 1,062 MC 89
2 Resident Evil (2002) 22 Mar 2002 · Capcom · PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, GameCube 4.32 4.37 raw 326 MC 88
3 The Elder Scrolls 3: Tribunal 6 Nov 2002 · Bethesda Game Studios · PC, Xbox 360, Xbox 4.22 4.47 raw 73 MC 80
4 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 17 Nov 2002 · Ubisoft, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Shanghai, Gameloft, Ubisoft Annecy · PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Classic Macintosh 4.17 4.18 raw 497 MC 91
5 Soul Caliber 2 5 Jul 2002 · Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube 4.12 ~4.00 raw 3 MC 92
6 Ever17: Out of Infinity 29 Aug 2002 · KID · PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PSP, Dreamcast 4.04 4.28 raw 18 —
7 Sega Soccer Slam 18 Mar 2002 · Visual Concepts, Electronic Arts Black Box, Black Box Games · Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube 4.00 ~4.67 raw 3 —
8 DoDonPachi Blissful Death 1 Apr 2002 · CAVE CO.,LTD. · iOS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 3.98 ~4.50 raw 2 —
9 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
10 Syberia 9 Jan 2002 · Microids, Anuman Interactive · PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Nintendo DS, macOS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 3.95 3.94 raw 811 MC 82
11 Zapper 1 Oct 2002 · Blitz Games · PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.91 ~3.25 raw 4 —
12 Resident Evil Zero 12 Nov 2002 · Capcom · PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, GameCube 3.87 3.77 raw 106 MC 83
13 Final Fantasy XI 7 Nov 2002 · Square Enix, Square Product Development Division 3 · PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 3.86 3.56 raw 27 MC 79
14 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 3.75 3.47 raw 36 —
15 Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project 21 May 2002 · 3D Realms, Sunstorm Interactive, Spawn Studios, Lda · PC, iOS, macOS, Xbox 360 3.72 3.72 raw 86 MC 58
16 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 3.55 3.44 raw 172 MC 64

Never rated 2 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.