Medal of Honor Rising Sun
- September 03, 2003 00:00 AM PST
Take to the high seas as Medal of Honor launches its Pacific front from Guadalcanal to Midway.
Rising Sun is on the horizon as the Medal of Honor series extends its brand of first-person-perspective military combat to World War II�s Pacific theater of operations. You play as Marine Corporal Joseph Griffin, and your tour of duty begins unexpectedly with Japan�s attack on Pearl Harbor. The game weaves through famous Pacific campaigns right up to Guadalcanal before the final assault on the evil empire. Like previous Medal games, you undertake covert military missions, but here your five assignments represent a hunt for a stolen cache of gold.Rising Sun�s missions spread over 10 massive levels with multiple pathways, something new for the series. Additionally, you can play the entire game in two-player co-op mode, and there are 10 multiplayer levels for up to four players.
The gameplay features the combat gunning that Medal vets have come to know and love, but the story line adds depth by weaving other characters into the action such as a British commando and a Japanese-American special forces operative. Corp. Griffin even encounters his brother who, by the way, is going to star in a future Medal of Honor title.
When Rising Sun hits the beach this fall, World War II officially becomes the longest military conflict in video-game history. Spoiler alert: We win!
