Medal of Honor: Rising Sun Playstation 2 Game Review 

It's also worth noting that the campaign can be played co-operatively with a buddy through local splitscreen. Seriously, this was the sole reason my brother and I kept coming back to the early levels of this game, as kids!

its 2020 and i would still play a remake of this game, first WW2 game i ever played lol i remember still being utterly horrified when my mom explained the black and white footage ACTUALLY happened

I dont remember the aiming being so weird or missing ammo

It's Singapore, not Shanghai...

i played this when i was a little kid

Your description of the aiming is spot on. Felt the same way about Frontline on PS2. The HD version seemed to have resolved that, at least.

I absolutely love the Medal of Honor ww2 games. My favorite series. Frontline was by far my favorite. Rising Sun was underrated by many. I wish they’d make a full remasters of Moh, Moh underground, Moh frontline and Moh rising sun. Heck make a rising sun part 2.

"Before Dark Times" ah, I get and I like it.

The sub-plot about the missing brother was really good I thought.

Loving these MOH reviews. Getting the urge to replay them all now. They were so memorable and cinematic. Fantastic soundtracks.

I love the bots in this game.

the coop was so much fun letting you play as a tank while your friend was on foot, you miss that but probably it would be very difficult to get it work on a emulator

what about the multiplayer with bots? Oomomo is all I'm saying.... the legend

the presentation of the prologue level in this game is just phenomenal in my opinion

I am getting so nostalgic watching this review. When I was younger I would have one of my friends for a sleepover every other weekend and this is the only game we ever played. Gooood times and a good review :)

Ahhh man. This game got panned by reviewers and I can understand why, but it holds a special place in my heart. I remember one Christmas my mom got my older brother the Medal of Honor pack that came with Frontlines, European Assault and this game. My brother preferred the Call of Duty’s so he barely played the MoHs, but I played the shit out of them, especially this game. Absolutely loved it because of the diversity of the settings

ALso this game Has Co-op story mode so there's that going on as well

Oh the childhood memories.

I love this game. The music and some scripted moments are amazing at times. This is one of the first games on PS2 that I played online and I played it A LOT. I still remember the maps!

Wasn't it Singapore, not Shanghai? I haven't played this game in a long time.

One of the first games I ever played at the age of 4. That Pearl Harbour level is so memorable.

I am surprised by how you didn't touch on some of the worst flaws of the game! The enemies are ridiculously stupid and will almost always "banzai" charge you instead of shooting. Also, every single time you man an MG nest, a wave of enemies will appear for you to mow down so you can feel like a bad-ass. Seriously, leave an MG, then man it again after a couple of seconds and a new wave of enemies will immediately spawn! Talk about breaking immersion... I also thought that the stealth missions were EXTREMELY frustrating... I still have nightmares about that single shot pistol that takes like an age and a half to reload. Finally, apart from giving you a specific set of weapons for each mission, they don't give you the right ones for the job, nor do they give you ammo for the ones that are the most useful. I remember in a mission where you were fighting in Guadalcanal, the combat was almost always at close range, yet I was swimming in sniper rifle ammo, which at the time was pretty much useless. All in all, a definite step down from Frontline.

A masterpiece, plain and simple. From the opening Pearl Harbor sequence, to the rain-soaked midnight raids, to the machine-gun-mounted elephant rides, Rising Sun oozes with jaw-dropping quality at every single turn.

So many good memories with this game as a kid. Always remember going round to a mates place and smashing the co op campaign start to finish all night. Hasn't aged well but was great at the time.

Loved this game as a kid. This, MoH Frontline, Turok Evolution, and Starfox assault were what made me a shooter fan as a kid.

The thing I loved (which is lost today except for sniper elite) is the OSS secret agent during ww2 especially in frontline and rising Sun as it feels so natural and the espionage and intrigue is cool, also they feel like the natural progression to the bond games

0:51 Man,I really like that atmosphere.

I was 17y when i got this on christmas. Time... It flies by. When i was in my 20s i thought i would always stay in my 20s, forever.

Nice review as always, you have really become one of my favourite youtubers. :)

why you never did a review of medal of honor european assault??

That night mission in Guadalcanal was very confusing and claustrophobic with those bastards jumping out of spider holes in the ground and charging at you with bayonets, really gave a feel of constant tension and being on edge. These classic PS1 and PS2 MOH games absolutely p' ss all over the modern COD games.

Always thought it looked much, much worse than frontline and the firing and weapon animations were weird.

I loved Frontline and rising sun as a kid. I should play both again to see how they hold up. Maybe the best memory of rising sun is the split screen multiplayer

always hated that you never got to kill commander shima

I never ran out of ammo in this game though.

If I remember correctly, the very first time you fire up the game it doesn't take you to the main menu, just straight to the first level right when you put the disc in. I always thought that was neat.

Something about this game really stuck with me. Both this and Frontline contrast strongly with European Assault and Pacific Assault. They have so much more character. I feel like the console limitations made EA get more creative and make the games more interesting. I also remember as a kid after all the WWII European games, this was a breath of fresh air, like FINALLY someone covered this part of the war. It's still been underrepresented I think, particularly in recent games.

This was one of my favorites back then.

this was my go to shooter as a kid, not because I considered it the best but because it was the only multiplayer shooter that I had, I had other shooters but none of them had multiplayer. and sure the game is a bit clunky but I never found issue with it playing it ever now and again, many console fps at the time controlled almost the same, it was around 2005 or 2006 when console shooters were actually good

Medal of Honor series inspired me to learn about the history of World War 2 as a kid.

I immensely enjoy your reviews since I discovered your assessment of NOLF 1. :) I was wondering, will you eventually take a look at 3rd person games? Games like Max Payne 1, Mafia, Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Heavy Metal F.A.K.K 2, Project Eden or perhaps Crusaders of Might & Magic.

Ah Rising Sun it has a special place in my heart, the amount of hours i spent on this games split screen with friends, first MoH game i played with multiplayer

I played this game for Gamecube and the exact issue you mentioned with aiming came up there too.

If I'm remembering right, this game also has a coop feature. And said coop allows you to abuse respawn. You can have the second player sit in cover and when you die you spawn on them. So my brother and I didn't have much difficulty beating this game.

This game was my childhood and I still enjoy playing it to this day me and my best friend used to take turns on Pearl Harbor to see how many planes we could shoot down. Personally Medal Of Honor Rising Sun Is my favorite 1st person shooter of all time. Me and my best friend spent hours on this game

This game was my childhood on the GameCube

I'm playing it right now on emulator and damn I didn't thought it will be a downgrade from Frontline. One of my biggest issues is the very strict criteria for earning medals, unlike in Frontline that kept the criteria from the first game which was 1 star for finishing the level, 1 for killing 95% of the enemies and another for finishing the level with 75% health remaining, here you have to complete the 2 bonus objectives on each level which isn't anything bad, but you also have to maintain a near perfect accuracy rating while also avoiding getting shot at all, because it counts the amount of times getting hit. Only way you can do this without tearing your hair out, is to set the game to easy and refrain from using any automatic weapons. The A.I. is also pretty dumb at times, friendly A.I. is always braindead, also noticed some bull when the enemy fires two shots so quickly, it's like it turned it's bolt-action into a semi-auto.

This was the one game me and my father played when I was a kid so much fun

thats what games are missing now, health packs found in the enviorment, it makes the game more of a challenge

Cod:waw will always be my favorite ww2 game. But frontline and rising sun was my childhood with ps1 medal of honors. Rising sun wasn’t that bad for its time. It was fun and the switch to the pacific was exciting. I never had issues with health or ammo there was enough pickups scattered in the level. And the historical videos were amazing! You learn a thing or two about ww2. Wish they made a rising sun 2.

That grenade animation tho. top notch telekinesis

I loved to play this co-op when i was young, good ol days

The Day's b4 Regenerating health... b4 Dark Times! love it.

If I were the EA Developers I would make a return to this game and remake the whole thing

it was an unfinished game totally , there was a huge thing about it , people were taking it back to the shops in droves , developers could not get away with releasing broken unfinished crap back then it was before "release it broken & patch it later" culture really took hold , those days are gone now.

most underrated classic in history.

3:27 I'll agree here. The aiming is broken as hell even on consoles as opposed to being played on with an emulator. It makes the game nearly unplayable. I don't think I've ever passed the first Philippians level because of the god-awful controls and the lack of checkpoints.

Wow, I still have this game and im gonna play it again.

loved this back in the day. I played co-op with my friends alot

You completely missed the elephant level! Stomping on enemies with several tonnes of pissed off pachyderm.

When I was a fair bit younger, Rising Sun was my absolute favorite FPS. But when I replayed it a couple years ago, the inability to fucking aim properly shattered all of my nostalgic illusions. In a game without health regen or frequent checkpoints, as well as having a focus entirely on shooting, being able to aim your fucking gun is the most basic requirement for it to be a functional product. If modern FPS aiming is akin to modern plumbing, Medal of Honor on the PS2 is like shitting in a communal ditch.

This game was like my childhood , nostalgia just hit me bro ..

Singapore, not Shanghai.

when are you going to review europeen assault (sorry i cant spell XD)

I remember playing the co-op campaign with my dad when i was about 5

I have played this game before. But never finished the game.

+Gggmanlives have you ever played Cold Winter for PS2 ? Would we ever see you do a video on that game ?

Fair enough criticisms the controls do take time to get use to. Clunky even for console, but once they are familiar lots of fun. So much fun playing this and European Assault back in the day. Still fun now, especially in the temple mission when you can push Tanaka to get sliced by the mediating soldiers and chiefs and he doesn't die.

I like how you destroy more planes in the pearl harbor mission than in real life pearl harbor attack.

Great game from my childhood...played the co-op in sp and mp with bots for houres...this was for my the beginning what multiplayer fps is on the ps3 sinds my ps2 dont have a internet connection..love this game still this day...played weeks ago with a friend and just needed to get us to is the slow frame rate...

I got this game from the Walmart operation REACH program back in the day. It took a huge chunk of the family holiday budget, but I played the hell out of it though. Haha

Used to love playing this on the Xbox. Hated the Philippines missions but loved the rest of it. Hate myself for selling my system lol

This game was my childhood

the singapore mission was my favourite, even though a lot of it was scripted it was impressive at the time.

Its always interesting going back and looking at these games I rented from Blockbuster - my future kids will get a laugh at that sentence in itself and being hit in the face with the realization that this game visually was horrendous but I remember it looking like it was made in 2017 using Crytek

That's badass you can use a Type 11 LMG. Only seen this gun in one other game before

I loved this game, even though I only played the four player split screen with my friends

i still have this

Great review Gggmanlives Now we just need a review of medal of honor airborne and my life is completed!

That mission was in Singapore not Shanghai..

4:05 pretty realistic, though. Soldiers rarely pick up enemy weapon systems.

I like the opening of the game, because if you don't skip it, it starts the game from the 1st mission

I loved this game as a 10 year old kid!

Anyone who says the Welrod isn't the best gun in the game has never played it.

Conserving ammunition and NOT GETTING SHOT TOO MUCH is part of a video game’s challenge.

I wish you'd redo this video in your longer more detailed format like your newer videos

i played this extensively as a kid on ps2 and never had an issue with the aiming

This was my favorite Medal of Honor, though I played it on original Xbox and usually splitscreen with someone. Made it a LOT more fun, though I don't remember ammo and health being that much of an issue.

This game had fantastic little quirks. Like the soldier who would run around the baseball diamond for no reason, or the officer who would banzai charge up and down all those stair cases. You'd let them both have their fun and then shoot them.

The ending was just awful. I hate cliffhanger endings, especially ones that never get a sequel to solve it.

@Gggmanlives ps2 version looks ok BUT What's this system your playing on , it looks nice n sharp

the tompson doesn't have the bolt at the top but the tommy gun did

I honestly still love this game

I never had any problem with the ammo though.

i always preferred Frontline. The missions were super fun, and I was felt that the graphics and animations were better in that one compared to Rising Sun

I'm glad you enjoyed this game, because I wasn't able to at all. I had it on the gamecube, and I remember getting a good first impression from it. I tried really hard to like it, but ultimately the weird aiming, the inability to pick up weapons, and the constant checkpoint treks just ruined it for me. I've never really been all that fanatical about the Medal of Honor series, but I love the original game, I enjoyed Allied Assault and Frontline, and the incredibly simple Heroes on PSP is one of my favorite handheld games ever. I just can't recommend Rising Sun to anyone when there are so many better WWII shooters out there, even within its own series.

Not sure why so many people hated this game and considered it much worse than frontline.

'The noodles are wet and spicy'

I loved this game back in the day, The opening Pearl Harbor bit is memorable (at least for me) and the mission where the alligator eats the soldier out of the boat was fucking awesome. The addition of having multiplayer with bot support makes it into a fun WW2 . The only thing that sucked about it was I looked a little bland and like most PS2 games, it was an ass to aim.

what is your rating in this one my is 7/10