E3 2003: Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
- May 14, 2003 13:55 PM PST
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The war?s not over yet for the Medal of Honor franchise, and starting this year, the action shifts from the battlegrounds of Europe to the jungles and islands of the Pacific theater, beginning with Medal of Honor Rising Sun.
The war?s not over yet for the Medal of Honor franchise, and starting this year, the action shifts from the battlegrounds of Europe to the jungles and islands of the Pacific theater, beginning with Medal of Honor Rising Sun. You play as one of the many thousands caught in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and you must escape from a sinking battleship, manning a mounted machine gun to take out dive-bombing Japanese Zeros. You then ship out to the Pacific and are drafted into the OSS to help prevent a nefarious Japanese plot. Other levels are set in Guadalcanal, Burma, Singapore, and the Philippines, where you often fight alongside (but won?t control) squad members. Levels always have multiple paths and routes as well as secret areas, which EA hopes will create a less linear feel. Excellent multiplayer options mean two players can go through all 10 single-player levels in cooperative split-screen play, while four players can dive into split-screen deathmatches and team play.Visually, an early preview version looks on par with Frontline, though the characters? faces seem much more detailed. The new approach of multiple paths seems promising, while the change in scenery is also most welcome. If you?re a MOH fan at all, Rising Sun looks like another mission worth volunteering for.
