Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun

First-person shooter set in the Pacific theatre of WWII, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor and moving through the campaign with you playing as a young recruit chosen for various historical missions…

40 11 November 2003 ESRB T

What Medal of Honor: Rising Sun is

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun is a shooter game developed by EA Los Angeles and released in 2003. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

First-person shooter set in the Pacific theatre of WWII, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor and moving through the campaign with you playing as a young recruit chosen for various historical missions such as the raid on Guadalcanal. The game also makes efforts to educate players in WWII history and conditions, with period stock footage and images, and unlockable interviews with Pacific veterans.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 29 points below the year average. Players rate it 54, 14 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun launched on 11 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

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