Medal of Honor:Rising Sun
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| Medal of Honor: Rising Sun | |
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| Developer(s) | EA Los Angeles |
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| Publisher(s) | EA Games |
| Release date(s) | November 11, 2003 (NA) |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Teen (T) PEGI: 12+ |
| Platform(s) | GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| Media | 2 × GameCube Optical Disc, 1 × DVD-ROM |
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun is the 5th installment of the Medal Of Honor series, released by Electronic Arts in November 2003. Rising Sun is another first-person shooter, set in World War II during the Pacific War. This game features single-player and multiplayer capabilities. (online play was terminated as of November 2006) In the single-player game, the player assumes the role of Cpl. Joseph Griffin of the United States Marine Corps.
[edit] Overview
[edit] Mission 1:Day of Infamy/Pearl Harbor
Media:Joseph Griffin (the main character) is awaken from his sleep aboard the USS California on December 7th, 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor. After finding his way through the interior of the ship, fighting numerous fires, and rescuing several crewmates, Griffin goes topside, and begins to shoot at the attacking planes and their torpedoes. After about 3 minutes, Griffin is blown overboard. He is fished out of the water by a PT boat and continues the fight. However, due to several hits to the engine, the PT boat and its turret are put out of action. At that precise moment, the USS Arizona is blown up by several dive bombers. After fending off the Japanese Navy, Griffin is off to his next stop: The Philippines.
[edit] Mission 2: Fall of the Philippines
Griffin is sent to the Philippines, and is patrolling a bridge when an enemy dive bomber attacks the bridge, killing most of the soldiers around him. He rushes up to find his brother Donnie, an engineer, attempting to get some explosives he left in a truck to blow the bridge. After fighting his way through the city, (going through sewers and even a baseball diamond), Griffin finally gets the explosives. Donnie takes a Japanese tank and covers Griffin and his driver as they escape. However, Donnie's tank is blown up, and he is given up for dead. However, he survives, and apparently is forced through the infamous Bataan Death March.
[edit] Mission 3: Midnight Raid on Guadalcanal
Griffin is sent to Guadalcanal. The Mission begins with a ride on a River raft. After picking off Several Enemies, Griffin has the choice of Coming out of the Raft or staying in the Raft. If he leaves the raft, he moves through the Thick Jungle, encountering Spider Holes and Snipers in Trees. He then attacks a bunker, getting 5 Key Intelligence Papers, and reboards the raft. If he chooses not to leave the Raft, everything that has just happened previously does not happen. Whether he reboards the Raft or stays on ther Raft, he eventually comes up on a Bunker, killing a Machine Gunner and Several Japanese Soldiers. Eventually (and Unfortunately), one of the Marines are hit, and falls off the edge of the boat. While he hangs there, a Crocodile finishes him off. After leaving the Raft, Griffin's Squad (along with a Second Squad) is caught in an Ambush. After killing the Japanese Defenders, he pushes through the Island, destroying defenses. Eventually, Griffin finds an Anti Aircraft Gun, destroying a tank and killing hundreds of Defenders.
[edit] Mission 4: Pistol Pete
After pushing through some thick Guadalcanal Jungle with two Indigenous Soldiers, Griffin stumbles upon a Valley, where Japanese Soldiers are Guarding three Prisoners. After freeing Lieutenant Harrison, Griffin and Harrison proceed to a Howitzer Gun. Griffin uses the Howitzer to destroy a tank and Several Japanese Soldiers, and Harrison leads Griffin to a Cave where Several Japanese Artillery Implacements (referred to by the Soldiers as Pistol Pete's) are hidden, firing away at Henderson Field. After destroying the Guns, Japanese Soldiers begin pouring out of a Cave and on to a Bridge. Harrison gets shot, but still manages to light a charge to blow up the bridge. As you reach the other side of the Bridge, explosives detonate, sending Harrison and the bridge to the Valley Below. However, the Player can save Lieutenant Harrison at the end of the Mission.
[edit] Mission 5:Singapore Sling
In this mission, Joe Griffin leaves his fellow Marines to join the OSS on a Dangerous, covert mission behind Japanese lines, armed only with 2 Pistols. After pushing through Singapore docks, Griffin meets his Contact; a Japanese American named Tanaka, posing as an Imperial Officer. After a Rickshaw crash, Tanaka reassures a Japanese Patrol, the two Proceed on. Griffin drops into an Open-Ditch Sewer, emerging at the Corner of a Building and Entering a Warehouse. Griffin frees a POW, and meets his Second Contact, a Rebellious officer named Major Bromley. Bromley gives Griffin Caltrops and Griffin uses them to knock a Car unusable and its passengers Unconscious. Stealing a German Officer's Uniform, Griffin enters the Rooftops of a Building and Frees another Prisoner of war. After dropping through a Skylight and freeing a third and Final Prisoner, Tanaka picks up Griffin, driving him to a Hotel. A Meeting Begins, however, several seconds into the meeting, the Real German officer busts into the Room, in his boxers, declaring Griffin an Imposter. At that point, Bromley drops through a Skylight and hands you a Sten Gun, and you blast away the Room. Proceeding out through the building, Blasting away everything in his Path, you make a Climatic Escape when Tanaka drives by with a Double-decker bus, allowing you to escape.
[edit] Mission 6:In search of Yamashita's gold
After Griffin and Bromley escape from the Axis Summit, the scene shifts to the jungles of Burma, where a specially trained group of British soldiers, knowm as Chindits, are preparing an assault. However, plans change when a Flying Tiger Pilot is brought down behind enemy lines. Racing through the jungle, Griffin kills several snipers and proceeds to the crash site, where Tanaka is waiting for Griffin. Entering a temple, Griffin and Tanaka destroy Japanese Officer's Sake Supplies and, after rescuing the pilot, places a Black Lotus Flower found on the Buddha statue on a pedestal, proceeds throughout the Temple. Bromley hijacks a Helicopter and rescues Griffin and Tanaka, and not a moment too soon. An explosion from a Sabotoged gun destroys the temple grounds.
[edit] Mission 7:A Bridge on the River Kwai
Griffin, Bromley, and Tanaka parachute into Burma again to follow the path of Yamashita's gold. The Battle takes place on the historic and tragic Burma Railway, a group of bridges built as supply crossings, built by forced labor of thousands of Prisoners of War and Local Natives. After being thrown out of his plane, Griffin pushes through the Thick, Burma Jungle. Grabbing a T11 LMG, Griffin proceeds to a Prisoner of War camp. Rushing through the Forest, Griffin Eventually makes it to a Railway Crossing, which has been destroyed by a train collision. After destroying the Bridge using the Fuel cars, Bromley and Griffin Complete the Mission, falling into a Hijacked Japanese seaplane.
[edit] Mission 8:Supercarrier Sabotage
Allied intelligence reported that Yamashita's gold is on a Japanese supercarrier, the 'Toshikaze'. Tanaka is responsible for getting everyone onboard the ship, and once you're on this ship, there is no turning back. Proceeding through the deck, Griffin kills several sailors. After opening all eight vents, destroying all four fuel monitors, sabotaging all four fuel valves, and after a brief meet-up with Bromley, Griffin enters the gold room. Interestingly, as Japanese soldiers enter the room, they are wearing gas masks. The room fills with green gas--the fuel fumes--and Griffin loses consciousness. When Griffin finally awakes, Tanaka, posed as a waiter, frees Griffin, but then is captured by Shima. Bromley captures a guard in response. As a final jab to Bromley, Shima kills Tanaka. Shima bolts from the room, entering the aircraft hangar. Griffin battles his way through, getting a glimpse at Donnie riding up an aircraft elevator with Shima using him as a human shield. Griffin and Bromley eventually enter a dive bomber, escaping the supercarrier moments before it explodes. Donnie Griffin is eventually rescued by his brother Joe later in the war.
[edit] Music
The award winning soundtrack in Rising Sun was orchestrated by Christopher Lennertz. Michael Giacchino, composer of the soundtrack for Frontline, left to work on the soundtracks of the rivalry series Call of Duty, after which Lennertz took over. Lennertz's score received overall positive reviews.Template:Fact
A promotional CD soundtrack was released for the game. Digital versions of the soundtrack were also made available and are currently for sale off of music services like iTunes.
[edit] Main Characters
[edit] Corporal Joseph Griffin
In Griffins hometown of Mather, Pennsylvania, he was everybody's All-American. A star athlete in High School, he found it only natural that he would enlist in the Marines. Seven years later, he is just as proud to serve his country. As tensions rose between the US and Japan, Griffin grew concerned that there may be a real war, and that his younger brother Donnie may enlist. Even though Joseph discouraged him, Donnie signed up. Universally liked by everyone in his squad, Joesph is an asset to any platoon. Strong and brave, he is always ready for any assignment. Although he works well in teams, some of his superiors believe that his future lies in solo missions.
[edit] Private First Class Donnie Griffin
In Mather, Pennsylvania, Marines Private First Class Donnie Griffin was known as Joe Griffin's kid Brother. Donnie was proud of his Brother Joe, but he yearned for the chance to prove himself. When a neighbors house caught on fire, it was thirteen year-old Donnie who kicked in the back door and pulled two children to safety. After that, no one called him "kid" anymore. As a Sophomore receiver on the High School Football Team, Donnie was named to the All-League team with his Brother, a Senior. When Joe graduated and join the Marines, Donnie became the Quarterback and lead the team to two Consecutive Country Titles. Ask him who his hero is, and he'll point to his brother. Ask him who the better football player is, and he'll point to the Waynesburg Central High record Books. Donnie is attached to a demolition outfit based in the Philippines.
[edit] Major Phillip Andrew Bromley
Since the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, Major Phillip Bromley of the BSOEB has been organizing resistance from within the City of Singapore. Living in and moving through the Catacombs beneth the city, he continues to sabotage Japanese interests and to courier people and information through Singapore. It should be noted that Bromley remains angry at the British Leadership that failed to prepare for the invasion even when he provided Accurate Information about the Invaders. While some British Commanders have threatened him with insubordination, more influential ones consider him a National Hero.
[edit] Colonel Michael Paul Floyd
The fledgling OSS has few more competent operatives in the field than Colonel Floyd. As Washington has struggled to build and integrate the new organization into the war effort, Floyd has been given considerable in developing conacts in East Asia. A habitual planner, Floyd prepares diligently for any contingency. While he is the ideal man for a small and growing organization, Colonel Floyd's focus on winning the battle can obscure his perspective on the overall war. This resourceful man from rural Montana can take care of himself.
[edit] First Lieutenant Edmond Harrison
It takes a rare bird to enjoy working with explosives, and Lieutenant Harrison enjoys his work perhaps a little bit to much. More than one officer has wondered about his stability. He is both feared and respected by his squaddies for his willingness to do just about any demo job, no matter how dangerous or crazy it may be. His enthusiasm for explosive has turned into an expertise; few soldiers in the entire Pacific Campaign know how to bring down a Bridge or a Building like Lieutenant Harrison. It is possible to save him at the end of Pistol Pete Showdown if you have a Machete or an entrenching tool for a bonus objective.
[edit] Private First Class Ichiro "Harry" Tanaka
Like many Japanese-Americans, Ichiro came under suspicion as the Empire of the Rising Sun began to rattle it's sabers. Born to Japanese immigrants in Honolulu, Hawaii, Harry has never seen himself as anything but American. To avoid the looks and insults, he joined the OSS. Because of his fluency in Japanese, he had been hurried through training and inserted into Singapore as a Japanese trader. Using his cover, he has been able to eavesdrop on sidewalk conversations among the occupying Japanese soldiers. Tanaka is also a trained Pilot. He ends up being killed in "Supercarrier Sabotage", while trying to save you.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Template:Imdb title
- Medal of Honor: Rising Sun at MobyGames
- IGN GC review
- Planet Medal of Honor
