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LAZY LAZY LAZY--only 9 missions for 50 bucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i am a huge MOH fan - so i write this review with disappointment. first, i blew thru the entire game in 1/2 day and kept waiting for that 'awesome' mission that abounds so much in FRONTLINE: it never showed up. basically the people who make this game have taken the massive following for granted and either didn't put their best people on it or cut the resouces too much. specific comments are that enemies are too far away and it's like shooting at a spec of dirt and in a few cases - the available guns are completely inappropriate for the mission. in one - i had to get thru extreme hand-to-hand combat with only a slow-loading sniper rifle. others are that when guns reload, they obstruct your view and they changed the grenade throw - why? one good change is that u can save in the middle of the mission. basically, this game was not developed by MOH fans and spielberg should rip them a new one. i'll stick to FRONTLINE and hope the next one is better.

Frontline this is not

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I had very high hopes for this game. Although I am a bigger war buff towards the European theater (I just like shooting Nazis), I thought it was a good switch to finally have a Medal of Honor game that took place in the Pacific. Right from the get go the attack on Pearl Harbor and the resulting escape from and defense of the USS California had my attention. The scenes, sounds, and visual were so realistic looking, that I actually felt tears welling up when the USS Arizona was sliced in half by the Japanese bombers.
As good as the Pearl Harbor sequence was, the rest of the game was utter crap. The graphics were no better then Frontline and the sounds, although great in the Pearl Harbor sequence, were only average throughout the rest of the game.
My two biggest complaints about this game are the difficulty and length. This game is EASY! Even on the most difficult level, the Jap soldiers can't hit the broad side of a barn for the most part! Not only that, but I could pick them off from long distances using just my M-1 Garand or even my pistol. Apparently, Japanese weapons didn't have great range. And talk about short! Fifty dollars for a game that I finished in about TWO hours??? That is definitely not worth it. Frontline took me several days and the Nazis inhabiting that game had dead aims.
The co-op game play was even worse! Take everything that I said in the above sequence and then remove the aircraft carrier scene! Now the game is even shorter, and with two people, you can certainly zip through it much more quickly. When my friend and I finished the game, we just looked at each other like 'that's it??'
To finish, I will reiterate that I am EXTREMELY disappointed in this game and I will be trading it in at my local computer store ASAP and buying Knights of the Old Republic for my PC.

Awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Very dissapointed in this game...not fun at all

As the Squid in Finding Nemo said..." PITTY..."

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As the Sequel to MoH: Frontline I tought MoH: Rising sun would be the best game EVER, but I soon dicovered that it was nothing more than a cheezy scam in order to make money, the best part of the whole game is the opening, when your in Pearl Harbor defending a ship. And that's vaguely satisfying.

MoH:The Rising Sun is a terrible game stemming from what seemed like a great Idea, I mean it looks so awesome on the commercials, but it really isn't that great, MoH:RS (Rising Sun) is very short, only a couple of missions.The graphics are maybe a little better than they were in Frontline but not noticable to the untrained eye.

Really MoH:RS had loads and LOADS of potential, but it was put out onto the market not only too early, but too expensively, I mean the game is just a little bit longer than a demo for SOCOM or MA:GitS, its a terrible game, that seems like there was barely any effort put into it.

RENT this game if you are interrested, but as a warning, it's not really worth the rental money. In summary MoH:RS is a great concept carried out terribly and severely poorly made, this game was a waiste of time and money to the producers, and a waiste of money to you and, if it was long enough, a waiste of time.

Good Game With Flaws

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think this game is good. I like the fact that they went another direction with the Medal of Honor Series and the beginning is great. Though it kind of goes bad after that. The level design is a bit lacking and it is a bit dark, thuogh that's how WWII was fought in Japan. The Japanese shouldn't go suicidal all the time. The Japanese also shoudn't be that stupid. The game is also a bit sluggish. But overall I like the entire game and the concept and levels and especially the biginning. I still love this game still and am a fan of Medal of Honor.

FLUSH 50 BUCKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

GARBAGE. IF YOU WORK FOR A LIVING PLEASE SAVE YOUR MONEY AND DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. This game is not your MEDAL OF HONOR. This should re-title it plastic crap with CD.

Truly a disappointment. Try Call of Duty

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Like many others here, I am a diehard MOH:Frontline fan. I've played and re-played it, never tiring of its graphics, gameplay, and rousing score, all of which perfectly combined to create an incredibly satisfying experience. Kudos to the guys at EA.

Rising Sun, however, is no Frontline. Minutes into the game it becomes embarrasingly clear that the team that created Frontline had no part in this. In fact, they left EA to create Call of Duty. None of what made Frontline so spectacular is here: the graphics are rather weak, almost PSX level, the controls and gameplay are disappointing (forget the thrill of stalking a Nazi soldier and popping him with one clean shot, here just move forward and spray Japanese soldiers), and the weapons are mere remnants of what they used to be, both in appearance and and sound.

Sadly, I am not happy to report this. I enjoy the MOH series and looked forward to this release with great anticipation. Thankfully, I was told to try Call of Duty instead, and I'm glad I did. I receieved Rising Sun for Christmas yesterday, and will likely return it.

Worth the money?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'd say that the game is worth the wait instead. I advise that you wait until this game becomes one of PS2's greatest hits so you can buy it for twenty dollars. Frontline was by far the greatest game I ever played, so I knew that I had to get the follow up. What a big mistake. There were only eight boards that were not even tough to beat. Frontline had 19 boards, each one was longer, and each involved some skill and puzzle work. Unlike RS, the Axis soldiers in FR were challenging, and the boards and buildings were cleverly designed. Rising Sun's easy boards make you follow a path, which requires no thinking, and the Artificial Intelligence is retarded. Your ally soldier often gets stuck in certain parts of the board (i.e. chairs and tables). Axis soldiers just run out into the open so you can just easily kill them. And if you think increasing the game difficulty would work, it does not. All that does is require more bullets to kill someone. It takes 3 sniper rounds to kill the enemy - 3! The whole point of a sniper gun, EA, is to kill a guy in one shot. The only reason I give this game 2 stars is because of the online feature. I play this for hours certain days. But EA managed to find a reason to mess that up for me too. For some unknown reason, I was permanently booted from the online service and I never got an e-mail saying why, and EA claims that they do send one. So, I called them up and they said that the Tech. department has no control over what happens and that I would have to ask a question online through an e-mail. I sent two, and the first they did not even respond. In the second one they replied saying I need to update my e-mail service in order to receive a response. Who knows what that means since I've never changed my e-mail address? Keep it simple: by Frontline first, if you have not already. Then, when Rising Sun's price goes way down, buy it for the online feature (if you have a broadband connection and a network adapter). (And changing the IP address is not the solution to getting back online in MOH:RS. They put CD ban's as well, so you cannot get back on even if you change the IP address.) Thanks for the wasted game and lack of customer service, EA. My brothers and I have only spent well over a thousand dollars on EA games for the PC, PS2, and the Sega Genesis. After this pathetic game's display, you owe the consumer big.

Yes, It's Short. We All Know It's Short. GET OVER IT!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: June 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I wish everybody would just SHUT-UP about this game's length. Rising Sun has been out for what, eight months now? So if you're still crying about how short it is then either you don't have a life or you've been living under a rock. I just bought my copy for $19.95 at EB Games and that's a fair price for what you get.

Another complaint that's often repeated in these reviews is how "stupid the enemy is", always running toward you. THAT'S WHAT JAPANESE SOLDIERS DID, you idiot! There not running toward you to shake your hand--they're trying to impale you with their bayonets! Get a clue.

If you're a fan of World War II games (especially historically acurate World War II games), then Rising Sun should find a welcome home in your collection. It may be shorter than it's predecessor, Frontline, but the graphics, sound (THX!) and multi-player are definately an improvement. So get off your high-horse already and buy this game.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: May 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, for the first five minutes. Very unrealistic very stupid and very boring. I beat this game in 1 hour. I have beaten it 13 times in 4 days on the hard level!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH it sucks!! I spent 35 dollars on it and it sucks!!
Your friends cant die unless it is a video. You can get hit 30 times and not die. Graphics suck. There is one level were you have to be stealthy and not get heard or youll get caught, well, I took out my loud gun and just started shooting all over and nobody came to fight me!! You dont need skill to beat this game. Dont waste your money buying, or renting, this game. Get SOCOM 1 or 2 instead if you want fighting. The story sucks and so does the diologe and graphics.

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