Game Releases · 2002

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54 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: game-boy-advance genre: action

Game Boy Advance 2002

Nintendo · 2001–2010 · 966 games all-time on RAWG

Game Boy Advance is Nintendo’s third major portable game console and a successor to the company’s famous Game Boy and Game Boy Color consoles. It has much more powerful hardware than its predecessors, different design and two more buttons on the side of the device. The GBA hardware is comparable to that of SNES and majority of the games on the system featured 2D sprite-based graphics reminiscent to that of 16-bit consoles. The console had two revisions: Game Boy Advance SP in 2003 and Game Boy Micro in 2005. SP is a more lightweight version of the system that had improved backlit display and clamshell design. The Game Boy micro is a much smaller version of GBA with the size comparable to that of the NES controller. All of the Game Boy Advance revision except for Game Boy Mini were backward compatible with most of the Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. The most successful games on the system were the titles in the Pokémon series. Some other well-known game series that had successful titles on the system include Metroid, Kingdom Hearts, Super Mario, PAC-Man and Kirby among others.

Releases in 2002
54
Release window
1 Jan 2002 → 20 Dec 2002
Busiest month
November 2002 12
Avg user rating
3.85of 5, 18 ranked, 20 provisional
Top Metacritic
Metroid Fusion 92

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 20 of the 54 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 3.85 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 — 18 of these games have one.

18 ranked (6+ votes) 20 provisional (1–5 votes) 16 never rated 1,408 votes counted 3.85 mean of ranked
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Ranked 38 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 3.85 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 Metroid Fusion 17 Nov 2002 · Nintendo · Game Boy Advance 4.28 4.37 raw 201 MC 92
2 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 4.16 4.18 raw 497 MC 91
3 Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land 25 Oct 2002 · HAL Laboratory · Game Boy Advance 4.02 4.16 raw 49 MC 81
4 MegaMan Zero 10 Sep 2002 · Inti Creates · Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance 3.98 4.60 raw 10 —
5 Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 22 Nov 2002 · Banpresto · Game Boy Advance 3.96 4.83 raw 6 —
6 Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance 16 Sep 2002 · Konami Digital Entertainment, KCET · Wii U, Game Boy Advance 3.95 3.90 raw 68 MC 87
7 Mega Man Battle Network 3 6 Dec 2002 · Capcom · Game Boy Advance 3.94 4.44 raw 9 MC 77
8 Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002) 7 Jun 2002 · Digital Eclipse · Game Boy Advance 3.91 ~4.00 raw 2 MC 80
9 Mega Man Zero 26 Apr 2002 · Inti Creates · Game Boy Advance 3.90 3.82 raw 28 MC 82
10 Duke Nukem Advance 12 Aug 2002 · 3D Realms, Torus Games · Game Boy Advance 3.90 ~3.33 raw 3 MC 81
11 Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron 25 Sep 2002 · AWE Games, Human Soft · PC, Game Boy Advance 3.90 ~4.67 raw 3 —
12 Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament 6 Aug 2002 · Now Production · Game Boy Advance 3.90 ~4.00 raw 5 MC 78
13 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 21 Oct 2002 · Stormfront Studios · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.88 3.89 raw 84 —
14 Metalgun Slinger 27 Sep 2002 · Game Boy Advance 3.88 ~5.00 raw 1 —
15 The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords 2 Dec 2002 · Capcom, Nintendo · Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance 3.87 3.89 raw 37 —
16 Frogger's Adventures 2: The Lost Wand 5 Nov 2002 · Konami Computer Entertainment Hawaii · Game Boy Advance 3.86 ~4.00 raw 2 MC 75
17 Elevator Action Old & New 20 Dec 2002 · Taito · Game Boy Advance 3.86 ~4.00 raw 1 —
18 Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2 25 Oct 2002 · Alfa System · Game Boy Advance 3.86 ~4.00 raw 1 —
19 Power Rangers Wild Force 19 Aug 2002 · NATSUME · Game Boy Advance 3.86 ~4.00 raw 1 —
20 Sonic Advance 2 19 Dec 2002 · Sonic Team, DIMPS · Wii U, Game Boy Advance 3.84 3.82 raw 39 —
21 The Revenge of Shinobi (2002) 19 Nov 2002 · 3d6 Games · Game Boy Advance 3.84 ~3.00 raw 1 —
22 Driver 2 Advance 4 Oct 2002 · Sennari Interactive · Game Boy Advance 3.84 ~3.00 raw 1 —
23 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
24 Zapper 1 Oct 2002 · Blitz Games · PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.81 ~3.25 raw 4 —
25 Star Wars: The New Droid Army 29 Nov 2002 · Helixe · Game Boy Advance 3.80 ~1.00 raw 1 —
26 The Mummy (GBA/GBC) 20 Nov 2002 · Konami Computer Entertainment Nagoya · Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color 3.80 ~1.00 raw 1 —
27 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones 30 May 2002 · David A. Palmer Productions · Game Boy Advance 3.80 ~1.00 raw 1 —
28 BattleBots: Beyond the BattleBox 10 Dec 2002 · Pipe Dream Interactive, Cave+Barn Studios · Game Boy Advance 3.79 ~2.67 raw 3 —
29 Justice League: Injustice for All 17 Nov 2002 · Saffire · Game Boy Advance 3.78 ~2.00 raw 2 —
30 Disney's Tarzan: Return to the Jungle 1 Jan 2002 · Digital Eclipse Software · Game Boy Advance 3.76 ~3.50 raw 2 MC 68
31 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 3.69 3.47 raw 36 —
32 Minority Report: Everybody Runs 12 Nov 2002 · Treyarch, Torus Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.60 4.17 raw 6 MC 50
33 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 25 Sep 2002 · WXP Games, Surreal Software, The Whole Experience · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance 3.59 3.51 raw 63 MC 59
34 Ice Age 19 Apr 2002 · Behaviour Interactive, Artificial Mind and Movement · Game Boy Advance 3.57 ~4.67 raw 3 MC 47
35 Castleween 29 Nov 2002 · Magic Pockets, DreamCatcher Interactive, Kalisto Entertainment · PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.56 ~3.50 raw 2 MC 50
36 Turok: Evolution 26 Aug 2002 · Acclaim Studios Austin, RFX Interactive, Super Happy Fun Fun · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.56 3.09 raw 32 —
37 Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku 14 May 2002 · Webfoot Technologies · Game Boy Advance 3.41 2.88 raw 26 MC 53
38 Worms Blast 22 Mar 2002 · Team17 Digital · PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Classic Macintosh 3.18 2.59 raw 83 MC 73

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.