Medal of Honor: Rising Sun

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• 10 massive gameplay levels spread across 5 major missions
• Fight off the attack on Pearl Harbor, lead the assault on Guadalcanal, blow up the bridge over the River Kwai, and much more
• Open environment based gameplay allows players to take multiple paths and approaches to defeat the enemy
• Featuring an all-new reward system, unlockable extras, and realistic environment rendering
• For 1 to 4 players

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009X3SY
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (100 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,636 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun is a new standard in shooter games. It combines the best of the Medal Of Honor series with better graphics, an enhanced gameplay system & deep storyline, for a new world of gaming excitement! Intense multiplayer combat for up to 4 players Hyper-realistic environments capture the look & feel of WWII and transport you there

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great FPS thats better than Frontline., August 6, 2003

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"charliekkkk" (Boise, Idaho, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (Video Game)

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun is a huge improvment over Frontline.

First of all, the game is even more dramatic. It starts off with the Pearl Harbor bombing scene, which is even more dramatic than the Omaha Beach scene Frontline started with. The game's levels are much more fun, and are more exciting. Rather than leading you down a linear path like in Frontline, there are several paths, and many ways to get each thing done. However, there are no puzzles, just bigger and more complex levels.

Rising Sun takes place in the Pacific. Certain levels have you in a boat, and the water effects are incredible. Graphics are very good, with more detail than in the first. There is still no blood or gore. The sound effectds are again excellent, and the music adds to the cinematic feel.

Control is great as well. There are two setups to choose from, just like in Frontline. One is classic, using one analog stick. The other is a dual analog stick setup that plays like Red Faction 2 or Halo. You can also fully customize it from the options menu.

Multiplayer is included this time around. It feels much better than the muliplayer mode from Frontline. The levels are well designed, and there are over 15 of them. There is no online play, but four player split screen is supported.

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun is a must buy FPS. It is historically accurate, and Frontline's flaws are cleaned up.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I WAS SHOCKED.......IN A BAD WAY, December 10, 2003

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MATT SCHWARTZ (philly) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (Video Game)

I have never written a review for a game before. Im only doing it because of the shock value of playing this game. I am a monster fan of the Medal of Honor games and was eagerly awaiting this one. I played a couple levels and kept noticing how easy it was, the enemy A.I. was pathetic. Many times I literally stood for several seconds within point blank range of the Japanese and they couldnt hit me before I calmly aimed and fired. and the thing is Im not one of these gamers who spends 10 hours each day playing games and needs a difficulty level thats so hard that you need a novel-sized tip book to get you through. I actually like linear, easy to follow games that offer decent, but not too challenging gameplay. The thing is, it was just so easy that I kept swearing that the system must have automatically gone to the easy level somehow. Here is what finally shocked me into a near heart attack. I was just about to finish what I thought was about half of the games levels and I told myself that before the next level I would have to up the difficulty to the hardest level because it was just too easy. What happens? I finish the level thinking Im about half finished the game and the credits start rolling!! I finished the whole game! I thought I was seeing things. I went through the main menus thinking there must be something I missed. My jaw was on the floor. Here I am a weak game player at best because I just dont play that many games, and Im finished this game in no time at all. I never thought I would be so dissapointed in a Medal of Honor game. Its almost as if it was a rush job. Now I know what people mean when they label a game a "rental only". I have no problem spending money, but this isnt worth anywhere near $50.

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This review will save you Fifty Dollars, December 16, 2003

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M. Hendrickx (Chicago, il United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (Video Game)

I have never been so unchallenged by a video game in my life, and since I am no video game pro, that is saying a lot.

I bought the game on Friday, the day it came out, and beat it today, Wednesday. It took me about five hours spread over 3 playing sessions to beat it.

There has been a lot of hype over how realistic the Pearl Harbor scene is in Rising Sun, and unfortunately it was undeserved. Instead of the breathtaking gunfight the ads promise, you basically flee to the deck of the sinking ship and then fire blindly at enemy planes with a rifle. Then you get on a gunboat and fire blindly at some more enemy planes. End of level. They could have done so much more with this Pearl Harbor scene.

After the somewhat unique first level, the game retreats to what is practically a clone of MOH Frontline, except you are shooting Japanese instead of Germans. Rising Sun is identical to Frontline on even the most basic levels. For example, there is a bell tower in Frontline you must go up in, and, guess what, there is one you must ascend in Rising Sun too! As far as weapons go, you get the same sniper rifle and assorted machine guns. Allegedly, there is also a bazooka available, but in the only level in which I found the bazooka missiles, the bazooka itself was nowhere to be found, so I never got to use it before beating the game.

The ending of the game, as other reviewers have pointed out, is the biggest sham I have ever seen in a video game. You make your way through an aircraft carrier, get into a plane, and blow up the aircraft carrier once you have taken off. Even the ending is a clone of Frontline: for those of you who have played it, Frontline ends with you taking off in a plane.

To say I was shocked when the game credits started rolling after I blew up the aircraft carrier would be an understatement. I thought I had at least a few more levels left, if, for no other reason, because I had not yet used the bazooka. Not to mention that the ending to the game was simply anti-climactic.

The people at Electronic Arts must have been behind schedule on the development of the game, and, determined to release it in time for Christmas, resigned themselves to releasing a sub-par product and propping it up with extensive marketing.