Game Releases · 2002

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27 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: playstation2 genre: shooter

PlayStation 2 2002

Sony · 2000–2013 · 3,151 games all-time on RAWG

PlayStation 2 is the sixth generation video game console developed by Sony and released in 2000. There were two primary revisions — the original and "slim" one. They do not differ much except for the size. PS2 is regarded as the best-selling video game system of all times as there were sold a total of 155 million systems worldwide. There are numerous exclusive series originated in PS2 and continued their path onward to the further platforms: God of War, Killzone, Ratchet & Clank, Jak and Daxter and many more. This explains the production timeline of the console — the last one was released in 2013. So PS2 remained up-to-date even 7 years after the release of its successor. Unlike PS1 the console supported a wide variety of controllers such as fishing rods and guns as well as dance pads and guitars for rhythm-games. It is also the first known consoles to have a bundled TV with it — Sony released Bravia KDL-22PX300 with PS2 inside not to mention various enthusiasts which embed the screen right into the console's body.

Releases in 2002
27
Release window
28 May 2002 → 19 Dec 2002
Busiest month
November 2002 7
Avg user rating
3.71of 5, 14 ranked, 11 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 11 of the 27 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 3.71 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 — 20 of these games have one.

14 ranked (6+ votes) 11 provisional (1–5 votes) 2 never rated 1,891 votes counted 3.71 mean of ranked
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Ranked 25 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 3.71 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 4.37 4.48 raw 353 MC 82
2 TimeSplitters 2 9 Oct 2002 · Free Radical Design, Crytek UK · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube 4.08 4.29 raw 55 MC 90
3 Hitman 2: Silent Assassin 1 Oct 2002 · Square Enix, IO Interactive · PC, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.94 3.95 raw 656 MC 87
4 Medal of Honor: Frontline 28 May 2002 · Electronic Arts, Electronic Arts Los Angeles, Danger Close Games · Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.91 3.91 raw 112 MC 88
5 BloodRayne 15 Oct 2002 · Sony Interactive Entertainment, Terminal Reality · PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Classic Macintosh 3.86 3.92 raw 265 MC 65
6 SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs 27 Aug 2002 · Zipper Interactive · PlayStation 2 3.83 ~3.00 raw 1 MC 82
7 James Bond 007: NightFire 19 Nov 2002 · Aspyr Media, Gearbox Software, Eurocom, JV Games · PC, macOS, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.77 3.76 raw 94 MC 78
8 The Sum of All Fears 28 May 2002 · Red Storm · PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.75 ~4.20 raw 5 MC 72
9 Armored Core 3 10 Sep 2002 · FromSoftware · PlayStation 2 3.74 3.67 raw 6 MC 74
10 Robotech: Battlecry 25 Sep 2002 · Vicious Cycle Software · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.73 ~3.67 raw 3 MC 73
11 Tribes Aerial Assault 23 Sep 2002 · Inevitable Entertainment · PlayStation 2 3.72 ~3.00 raw 1 MC 73
12 Contra: Shattered Soldier 22 Oct 2002 · Sony Interactive Entertainment, KCET · PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 3.71 3.73 raw 11 —
13 Virtua Cop: Elite Edition 29 Nov 2002 · AM2 · PlayStation 2 3.69 ~3.00 raw 1 —
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 3.61 3.47 raw 36 —
15 Star Wars Bounty Hunter 19 Nov 2002 · Aspyr Media, LucasArts Entertainment, Disney Interactive Studios · PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.58 3.51 raw 57 MC 65
16 Resident Evil Survivor 2 – Code: Veronica 8 Nov 2002 · Capcom, NAMCO, NexTech · PlayStation 2 3.54 2.50 raw 8 —
17 RLH: Run Like Hell 27 Sep 2002 · Interplay Entertainment · Xbox, PlayStation 2 3.53 ~3.00 raw 3 MC 58
18 The Terminator: Dawn of Fate 1 Sep 2002 · Paradigm Entertainment · Xbox, PlayStation 2 3.52 ~2.67 raw 3 MC 58
19 Minority Report: Everybody Runs 12 Nov 2002 · Treyarch, Torus Games · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.51 4.17 raw 6 MC 50
20 Men in Black II: Alien Escape 27 Jun 2002 · Krome Studios Melbourne · PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.50 ~5.00 raw 2 MC 50
21 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 3.50 3.44 raw 172 MC 64
22 Turok: Evolution 26 Aug 2002 · Acclaim Studios Austin, RFX Interactive, Super Happy Fun Fun · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance 3.47 3.09 raw 32 —
23 Die Hard: Vendetta 15 Nov 2002 · Bits Studios · Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.46 ~2.50 raw 4 MC 54
24 Dino Stalker 27 Jun 2002 · Capcom Production Studio 3 · PlayStation 2 3.42 ~2.33 raw 3 MC 50
25 Space Raiders 19 Dec 2002 · Taito · PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.33 ~3.00 raw 2 MC 40

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.