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Medal of Honor Rising Sun for Nintendo GameCube
Medal of Honor Rising Sun for Nintendo GameCube 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.
You can play the campaign cooperatively with two players locally. The screen is split in two, and you coordinate your movements and fire. The game limits how far apart you can get, making it important to stay together. There are also competitive split-screen matches for up to four players. Rising Sun thus offers both a story to follow alone and a campaign in which you work on the same objective with someone beside you. Its rhythm is chiefly determined by successive military objectives.
Region and language
Our Nintendo GameCube 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 Nintendo GameCube 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.
Local cooperation was an important addition to the series' GameCube lineup. Two players could complete the same campaign together, alongside competitive matches for four people. The distance restriction helped determine how that cooperation worked: both players had to remain near each other. Online features offered for the PlayStation 2 version at the time belong to that other edition. Rising Sun therefore occupied its own place on GameCube between Frontline and European Assault, particularly through its theater of war and the ability to play the story together.
Similar games for Nintendo GameCube
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.
007 Everything or Nothing also offers two-player cooperation and a story with varied action sequences. Its cooperative assignments sit alongside Bond's solo campaign and are played in third person. Rising Sun uses first-person action within its war campaign. You mainly coordinate cover, direction and shots, while Bond receives additional options through gadgets and movement.
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent shares first-person combat and local split screen for up to four players. Its antihero uses two weapons simultaneously and special powers from an eye implant. Rising Sun builds battles around wartime weapons and fixed military objectives. For players wanting to cooperate in a story campaign, Rising Sun also adds local two-player co-op.
Die Hard: Vendetta also lets you follow a cinematically structured sequence of first-person objectives. It uses McClane's police work, conversations and civilians to interrupt the shooting. Rising Sun gives you military allies and Pacific locations. The GameCube edition of Vendetta is single-player; Rising Sun can also be played cooperatively or competitively.
Like Rising Sun, XIII combines a story-driven shooting campaign with local competitive play. Comic panels, stealth and the mystery surrounding the protagonist's identity give its objectives an espionage character. Rising Sun uses military objectives and scripted war scenes. It can also be completed cooperatively by two players, who must stay close together during a mission.
