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Customer Reviews of Medal of Honor: Rising Sun

Don't waste your money.
One star is being generous, frankly I don't think this game deserves a star becuase it is another installment in a series of same titles that has almost no improvements and is worse in a few respects. I have played Frontline (also on Xbox) and Allied Assault (on the PC) and gave both titles less than stellar reveiws for reasons that are still a plague in the latest installment. Let's get to the review...

The Good:
- Very little here, but it was a WWII game, a genre that draws many (including myself) to these games.
- The sound was not stellar, but was better than average.
- You get to man the guns on a gun boat during the Pearl Harbor mission and then be gunner on a japanese airplane at the end of the carrier mission.

The Bad:
- Almost everything about this game fell into this category. For starters, the game is short. If you skip the movies and intros, you could complete it in about 1-2 hours. Hardly worth the rental price. There is no feeling that you are actually taking part in the war in the pacific, and when you watch the videos between missions they span years without you ever taking part in the battles. You don't defend Midway Island, you don't make a stand on Wake Island, you never set foot on Iwoa Jima, you are only on Guadacanal for one night time raid and then one daylight mission where you are hunting through a cave complex for some artillery peices, and then you are in Burma for one mission (Bridge on the River Kwai), one mission in the Phillipines and one mission in Malaysia, and finally there is a mission on an aircraft carrier.
- The missions don't feel like you are actually in the war. This was bad in Allied Assault, worse in Frontline and is really, really bad in Rising Sun. You did get to neutralize some artillery and survive pearl harbor, but the focus of the game is hunting some stolen gold (and while that has its importance, I would like to have more to do with the actual mainstream combat).
- The weapon selection is poor. The M1 Garand is still modeled nicely, but the .45 recoils badly and is nearly impossible to hit anything with because the rounds do not always go where you are aiming even at what I would consider close range. In addition to the aforementioned there is the Sten (incredibly underpowered, but more accurate than some of the other weapons), a shot gun (one of the better weapons), a sniper rifle (not quite as accurate as Frontline, but fair) another pistol (single shot, very accurate and powerful), the Thompson (you won't get this gun much), a Japanse automatic rifle (not sure what this one was) and a Japanese light machine gun that is both inaccurate and weak, and while it is an automatic the rate of climb when firing is so bad that you can only expect to hit someone with one or two shots before you are firing at the ceiling. There are some fixed machine guns that are lethal if somewhat difficult to aim. There are also grenades on some levels, and I hear there may be other weapons, but I never saw them.
- You are able to kill with a single swing of any weapon which will save you many, many times when you have someone right on top of you and a weapon that isn't powerful enough to kill them before they kill you, or you are simply out of ammunition (which happened to me only in one level, but was really, really annoying).
- Weak guns. The weapons are so weak that you can fire into an enemy's face at range 3 times with the .45 or Sten before they drop, even twice with the sniper rifle. Even a non-lethal shot to the head should affect the target, but they continue to happily stand at post.

The Ugly:
- The graphics are some of the worst I have seen on the xbox. People are animated the way they were on PC's 5 years ago...it is absolutly horrible, they look like splotchy animated skeletons in a paper mache world. Sometimes people are visible sticking through walls or vehicles, when they die they will fall half in and half out of a wall and at times the scenery dissapears all together and you have people hanging in midair. At times the enemy will fire near the edge of a wall and you can watch the streak of the round come right through the wall as if it wasn't even there.
- Unlike frontline when an enemy dies you can't pick up their weapon or their ammo. This is extremely annoying when you are walking around with a pistol and you would love to pick up a fallen enemy's machine gun.
- No AI for your allies or the enemy. They shoot when you walk into a certain area and continue to shoot until they have fired all of their ammo, then reload and start firing again non-stop. They don't pursue, they don't run when wounded, they don't usually even scream for help. Once I had my grenade thrown back at me, but the rest of the time they just stood there and let themselves be blown up. Really conveinent, but not realistic at all. If you havn't stepped into their programmed "kill zone" then they can't see you and you can shoot them to your heart's content and they will hop around and then stand at attention again.
- The game has the look and feel of any no-name shooter you can pick up at your local superstore for almost no investment. EA Games has merely done a poor job of adjusting the scenery and weapon skins (most part time programmers on the web do a better job in their spare time) to reflect the Pacific Theater. Don't waste your big bucks on this one.

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Forget the bad reviews by those losers...
Rising Sun is much better than Frontline.

The graphics are realistic, the gameplay is excellent, and the sound, levels, and overall feel of the game is better than any of the games in the Medal of Honor series. The bad reviews this game gets are stupid. Guys complain because they lose and can't kill the bad guys.

-Co-op mode is fun and it is almost impossible to lose...so if you want a challenge play it on one player

-Single-player is alot harder and takes longer to beat.

-Multiplayer is great! The levels and "bots" help create awesome battle sequences!

-The Pearl Harbor level is dramatic and much more detailed than the hokie beach raid in Frontline.