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Medal of Honor: Rising Sun for PlayStation 2
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun for PlayStation 2 is a first-person shooter following the Second World War in the Pacific. You play marine Joseph Griffin, who survives the attack on Pearl Harbor and is subsequently deployed on different fronts. The campaign takes you through ships, jungles and built-up areas. Military objectives and personal events connect the missions into one story in which Griffin's brother also plays a role.
You advance with different weapons through a sequence of objective-driven levels. Sometimes you must neutralize a position, clear a route or support another soldier. The environment changes how you find cover and respond to enemies. Staged events and moments using a mounted weapon alternate with ordinary walking and aiming. Music, voices and sound effects provide recognizable signals when the action around you intensifies.
Alongside the solo campaign, two players can complete story missions together locally. You use a split screen and coordinate movement and shots. This is a separate two-player campaign whose content differs slightly from the solo adventure. There are also competitive matches for up to four players. For three or four players, you need a PS2 Multitap. Rising Sun thus offers different ways to experience the same wartime setting: completing an assignment alone, tackling a mission together or fighting each other in an arena.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun was released by Electronic Arts in 2003 and developed by EA Los Angeles. After earlier war missions in Europe, the series brought this console campaign to the Pacific. Joseph Griffin became the new protagonist. The attack on Pearl Harbor opened a story that subsequently used different locations and events from 1941 to 1944 as its backdrop.
The design retained the familiar structure of a story-driven first-person shooter with military objectives. The developers worked on elaborate action sequences, a cinematic soundscape and variety between walking, gunfights and mounted weapons. The historical setting served as the backdrop for a fictional protagonist and his personal story. You therefore experience the campaign as a sequence of assignments through one marine's eyes.
On the PlayStation 2, Rising Sun expanded the series with local cooperation and multiplayer matches. Frontline on that console had focused entirely on its solo story. Rising Sun's two-player campaign uses the same storyline with changes to the content. That choice gave shared play a place of its own. The later European Assault returned more emphasis to one player with computer-controlled fellow soldiers. Within the PS2 series, Rising Sun therefore particularly represents the move to the Pacific front and the opportunity to team up locally.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Medal of Honor: Frontline shares military assignments, wartime weapons and a campaign experienced in first person. It follows Jimmy Patterson in Europe. Rising Sun moves to Joseph Griffin and the Pacific. It also offers local cooperation and competitive matches, whereas the original PlayStation 2 version of Frontline is entirely for one player.
Medal of Honor: European Assault shares the historical war setting, perspective and military objectives. Its campaign uses other fronts and lets you give simple orders to computer-controlled fellow soldiers. Rising Sun lets two people complete the campaign together locally. Those wanting to play the same story side by side therefore receive a different experience from the support provided by Holt's squad.
Call of Duty: Finest Hour also combines a cinematic war campaign with assignments among computer-controlled soldiers. It switches between Russian, British and American protagonists across multiple fronts. Rising Sun keeps Joseph Griffin as its consistent figure in the Pacific and adds local cooperation, allowing you to tackle story missions with someone beside you.
Black shares the perspective and alternation between walking, choosing cover and gunfights. It uses modern covert operations and destructible environmental elements to shape combat. Rising Sun uses the Second World War, military allies and Pacific assignments. The opportunity to play together locally also changes the approach.
Killzone also presents military conflict in first person, but places it in a science-fiction world involving Vekta and the Helghast. Rising Sun uses a historical backdrop with Joseph Griffin and events on the Pacific front. Both follow a sequence of battles, while their weapons, opponents and the significance of their locations differ.
