Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (Sony PlayStation 2, 2003)

This game was a pretty good addition to the MOH family. Gameplay is pretty entertaining except that there is a very obvious path that you must follow, no choice in where you go like in European Assault. Graphics are pretty good and the overral campaign is entertaining. The different array of weapons really make the battles interesting however certain maneuvarabilities are restricted: such as lying down, or kicking a grenade that is lying on your foot (not a good situation). The AI Japanese are not the smartest people on earth (like they are today:) My personel favorite feature of the game was its multiplayer. You can have AI join in a battle or you can have your friends join in a battle or both. You can have up to eight people running around shooting each other in some pretty sweat battle areas. I have played the battle portion of the game with my friend's for hours. Also, if you have broadband internet, this game is great for online play.
BTW: I wouldn't necessarily consider it an easy game. On the easy setting, it can be pretty easy, but if you put it on the hardest setting, it is nearly impossible to beat. Personally I recommend European Assault more, but this is also a good game worth playing. Buy it if you want to, I did and I wasn't sorry at all.

The action is good with multiple scenarios. There is however some mild cussing, but nothing too offensive. There is no blood, guts, and gore just people falling over and dying when shot. There are some challenging levels but nothing you can't learn to overcome. Saw this game listed on ebay at a great price and I'm glad I bought it. I would say it was definitely worth the money.

These days, Electronic Arts must expect the Medal of Honor games to sell solely on the strength of their name alone. The newest game in the acclaimed World War II-themed series of shooters, subtitled Rising Sun, adopts the same formula used by its predecessors, but it's fraught with lots of minor gameplay problems that eventually add up to one major headache. Rising Sun isn't completely without merit, since it comes packaged with some nice extra materials and mostly solid production values, but the weakness of the gameplay itself undermines what could have been a much more enjoyable experience.

This game, like all the honor MoH games for that matter, is simply entertaining. I cannot stop playing these games for one simple reason: they are just so much bloody fun. The action is constant, the game is challenging at points, and it never feels repetitive. The objectives of the single player mode seem to always change even if they are similair to those presented in a previous level.

All in all a fantastically fun way to waste some time.

I decided to buy this game for my son who is battling cancer.His plans where to go into the service which will never happen.He enjoys playing games with guns,it makes him feel like he is in the service try to save lives in the different levels,and the battles its like a struggle for him and helps take his mind off things.Thank you