"An Underrated WW2 FPS" - Medal of Honor Rising Sun Retrospective Review (Development/Game Analysis)

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[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Time Stamps: Intro: 00:00 Development: 01:21 Gameplay Discussion: 04:16 Conclusion: 15:02 Thank you very much for watching! If you are interested in more Medal of Honor Retrospectives, please click one of the links below: MOH 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hauah2Znm911r8U MOH Underground: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mV6Wfa1vrrp_jsU MOH Allied Assault: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6u8aXZvlNqFeNE MOH Frontline: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jouWp4qEr6yifdU If you are interested in early access to my content, check out my Patreon: www.patreon.com/joethealternativegamer

[@Steve-mx9rr]

the game will be 20 years old this year! how time flies... would love to see a remaster or something of the game.

[@jrad410]

As a kid i got real interest in Pearl Harbor. From 2002-2003 i saw the Pearl Habor movie, visited Pearl Harbor itself, then played this game. Its so odd to me that the Pacific Theater didnt get much attention from game developers

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Same thing with battles in Africa! I want more!

[@evanhanley6437]

Medal of Honor is just overshadowed by Call of Duty now and that makes me really sad. The franchise was WAY too ahead of its time. Stephen Spielberg caught lightning in a bottle and he was right to run with it. We have to give it credit where its due. The attention to detail, the godly soundtracks, the key moments of World War 2, the fantastic gameplay and the feeling like you were in a war was absolutely spot on. Frontline will always be my favourite.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Frontline is easily one of the best and I love this one as well

[@Fosi94]

Don't forget the most impressive thing about the game back in the day: the sounds...

[@cadjebushey6524]

Goddamn kids and teens these days would rather pick Michael bay over Speilberg.

[@kristaboudreau6614]

The only game that did it better was the first 2 Brothers in arms games. Those were unbelievable especially for their time

[@MrSkullMerchant]

​@@kristaboudreau6614hells highway is awsome aswel imo

[@Some_Guy6]

Still looks better and better storytelling then state of the art modern games nowadays.

[@Khornecussion]

This game was my jam. Rising Sun on original Xbox I believe it was. Brother and I would play Co-op. Was the one game my brother and I could always agree on other than Conflict: Desert Storm. That game even led to some little brotherly inside jokes, like the opening to Medal of Honor where you're running through the corridors of the ship, a man is working on the pipes and gets scalded by hot steam right in the face, grabs his face and just begins doing a repeated animation of stamping. He and I would get into laughing fits just by mimicking the guy's " AH! " and then covering our faces and doing our best stomping animation. Good times. Oh to be like... six years old again.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

I remember the conflict games!

[@Khornecussion]

@@joethealternativegamer3935 I always played Jones and Foley. Lol. He got Bradley and Connor.

[@kristaboudreau6614]

Oh my god conflict desert storm dude *chefs kiss* it's crazy how many people have never played it

[@theTF2sniper]

Completed the Co op campain with a friend that never played the game in the past, for me its been atleast 15-17 years since i played it with my Nephew.. A blast from the past.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

It’s great!

[@DaBigBlud]

I was hooked right off the bat the intro with you waking up on the ship trying to escape with the fire extinguisher was so immersive at the time I'll always have fond memories of Rising Sun

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Great game!

[@voyager33mw]

I used to play multiplayer a lot on Gamecube against bots. One of them, "Dogan", once killed me a dozen times in a row, and ever since he has been my arch nemesis.

[@BlueRaptorNightFury]

If I'm correct (and so is the wiki) They managed to finish the cliffhanger in MoH: Heroes where Joe managed to find his brother in a POW Camp near the end of the war, while the squeal would be nice, I think that at the same time it would be hard since the brother would just be a POW and that wouldn't be very fun.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Oh I think you’re right!

[@ethanwasme4307]

12:24 the amount of nostalgia... I remeber playing that baseball map a lot with the bots as a kid and the jungle map with my cousin when we were a bit older... Always wondered which MOH game had the jungle map :P

[@ethanwasme4307]

Holding off the PS2 until I can get a 4:3 and a modded HDD to play .iso

[@proto-geek248]

*remember

[@ethanwasme4307]

@@proto-geek248 u're telling me it's not spelt like it's pronounced? interesting...

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Long live bots!

[@That_Handle]

Did you het your set up for Medal of Honor? It also has fan supported online multiplayer again for PS2. As yet, |ns|gn|a doesn't have it listed if OG Xbox also was sportin online MP. On PS2, if you can't see other sessions/no one sees you hosting in the lobby, some port forwarding is likely what's needed (coming from a -390001 PS2 here spinning the optical drive for this one).

[@guardian7106]

This game was awesome 😄 my brother and I played this title a lot back than, both the campaign and multiplayer we absolutely loved 😄 this game also is what made me learn that not only Japan was another major player in WW2 but how the pacific was another crucial battle line as well

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Yea the coop and multiplayer are both very solid :)

[@proto-geek248]

*then

[@ZuperRookie]

Great review, easily the fairest and most balanced one that I have seen for Rising Sun. Such an underrated game, also might just be me but this game has some of the best mission names of any game I've played 👌

[@blowbert9126]

Also "Pistol Pete" was my favourite mission, saving the explosive guy at the last bridge for the first time is something i will always remember.

[@vinniecorleone62]

A outstanding job with conveying the details of this "Frontline" follow up sequel Joe, solid points! I have played "MOH Frontline" on the PS2, Xbox & PS3 remastered in HD but haven't played my "MOH Rising Sun" Xbox game yet, I even found the strategy guide for it as well with the intention of going through it. After your enticing review I'm far more interested in playing it now.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

This game is awesome!

[@olbulldogface1359]

Back when developers cared about there customers and games

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Some still do care in the AAA space and you see a lot of it in the indie space too!

[@themegaforce810]

@@proto-geek248shut up

[@Carl_Johnson66]

Can we get a f in the chat for Tanaka

[@mindujiman]

I didn't know they put so much effort in it. I love this game, it was the first MoH I played. Maybe it was a bit cluncky, easy at some points and a bit short, but definetely very enjoyable and challenging. People tend to forget about it, but for me it was the reference. I also liked the part of the world that takes place in, seems like the other WW2 games forget about it and it's quite interesting. I would've liked to see other Medal of Honor games for the PS2 wich took place in the Pacific.

[@TheCowboy270]

Rising Sun was easily my favorite ps2 war game! And COD Big Red 1

[@That_Handle]

Also liked Frontline here as well along with your mention. Have appreciated the revived online MP for PS2's Rising Sun and woukd like to see the online MP for CoDs 2, Finest Hour and 3 proceed to continue being playable online as well.

[@SpinachMinich]

I loved this series growing up! Rising sun had the leg up with multiplayer, as well as replaying missions to unlock new multiplayer skins. Frontline has the crown over rising sun with the campaign. I’d rather a ton of quick-mid length levels than like 9 long ones

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Me too :)

[@Joe-fy5dz]

Been watching your vids tonight and I'm loving them. Subbed

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Oh thank you! Glad to have ya!

[@richardrobinson1651]

Fantastic watching this game again. I played it very differently. Slow, looking around each corner, strafe, and most important of all, head shot. Going for "cut price barber " " William Tell" "Melon popper" All the good stuff from the ori

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

:)

[@carucen]

We loved to play this whit My friend 👍it was first co-op shooter for us

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

What a great one to start out on!

[@blowbert9126]

This game with my friend in splitscreen fighting against nine 5 star Oomommos was my childhood.

[@kaveondublin5781]

MOH Frontline is tied with 007 Nightfire and Goldeneye for N64 as my favorite games of all time. I have always wanted to play Rising Sun and may have to pick it up in the near future. Love your videos man. You know how to hit the nostalgia

[@That_Handle]

If you haven't yet selected the console, Rising Sun for PS2 has fan supported online MP. If you can't see other nor they you hosting at the lobby screen, port forwarding is most likely the solution. If online MP was available for the OG Xbox, the *_|ns|gn|a_* sight doesn't yet show it listed among supported online MP titles, yet.

[@shin0bili]

The Guadalcanal mission has always stuck with me, for some reason I can't explain.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

I feel like way about a few missions in this series!

[@kristaboudreau6614]

Growing up when this game came out I had an old shitty tube TV that was so dark that I had to navigate missions like the Guadalcanal one by where the muzzle flashes were. Somehow I still got it done though lol

[@mcsmash4905]

i bought this game in a game store somewhere around 2010 , heck i was probably one of the last people to buy a ps2 game from there considering that the era of the ps2 was pretty much over , i played it to death , for a while i had no memory card so i replayed it every single day for several years and then the cd misteriously dissapeared but its probably stashed away in some box

[@That_Handle]

Slip that into an ethernet equipped console for plugging into a modem and you can get online MP through revived play.👍

[@Cat_in_The-Box]

​@@That_Handlethis, but mind you this works only on NA versions and French version. I'm not sure about Japanese release (was there any even?). You can also play through emulator (still requires correct version or patched iso)

[@cadjebushey6524]

While not as good as Frontline, its still a solid effort for the series first pacific theatrw game. I just wished Allied assault and Pacific assault would get a console release.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Yea I’d love to see them get a nice remaster!

[@nhovi9656]

I played it on GameCube…was my first fps game and man did I play it a lot

[@nightkidgaming1242]

My boy joe killing it again

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Lol trying :)

[@lorenzosyperreck8941]

It was the first ww2 game I ver owned, It helped me fall in love with the conflict. It is probably the only game that show the early '42 philipines and Burma (southeast Asia in general). Everything eles is just the same old same generic Iwo Jima or Okinawa

[@morsecode980]

This game was my childhood

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Yes!

[@pabloteixido2155]

Oh rising sun awesome game and the splitscreen coop 10/10

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

:)

[@ennuiarduous6446]

Alongside with Battlefronts, MoH RS is the best multiplayer on PS2 ;)

[@jazzyjez]

This game was my ever 1st multiplayer experience on a console as probably for other. Spent countless hours of multiplay gaming, I was a beast on it and had people rage quit. 🤣

[@Fosi94]

I bought the game day one. As a fan of MOH since the first one for PSX I had to much fun. The werlod was amazing to use, the music and ambience fantastic. Will check your video because maybe my brain is doing tricks on me. At the end of the day was 2006 if I recall correctly? 18 years ago....oh god. edit: 2003? my god, how time flies. I swear it was launched a year before than Halo 3 and def was not, the graphics on my brain look way better.. We are getting old bois.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Great stuff back then though!

[@Fosi94]

@@joethealternativegamer3935 Pretty good times :D

[@R.W.T48]

The composer still Michael chacino

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Not for this game! It was Chris

[@urwrstntmre]

I'm not the most experienced gamer, but the Guadalcanal level was the hardest level of any shooter i remember

[@anthonycoffer3633]

At the time of this games release I wasn’t much into the Pacific theater although I did briefly kw a little about Pearl Harbor other than I only kw some of European theater stuff If metal of honor was to do all these first 3 games this one they could do some MAJOR beach landings

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

I miss MOH!

[@anthonycoffer3633]

@@joethealternativegamer3935 yeah me too I used to sit in my room for hrs & play the first one all the time

[@chardaskie]

When I was young playing this I would always get scared after the tanks wheel got damaged so I would never want to leave it.

[@soundtrack1405]

Unpopular opinion: Best MoH game on the Ps2

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

I can see that! For me it is a very close second to frontline.

[@America7675]

I’m playing It right now

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

You’re having a better night than me!

[@TheTeeWorldsfreak]

Did you play it via an emulator?

[@medalhadehonra]

Ótimo game não é um dos meus preferidos mas gosto muito tambm assim como toda saga

[@shadowcatboy7852]

makes me wanna cry that this series didnt have enough attention ;-;

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

It’s great!

[@6Pain]

They change us from solder to camera man the new shooter game

[@Hamentsios10]

Underrated indeed, such a great "sequel" to Frontline given it's basically built on it. I was expecting different soundtrack samples displayed here like the Pearl Harbor tracks, and the ending takeoff music as they would hit differently, not to undermine the ones you picked, but the examples could have reflected a bit better. Also you could write the timestamps in the description instead of the pinned comment. That would let youtube add chapters in the video timeline.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Thank you for the feedback! And I had no idea about the description time stamp stuff!

[@Hamentsios10]

@@joethealternativegamer3935 it will surely help now ;) if youre still up for a discord chat, you can find my server in each of my vid description.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

@@Hamentsios10 I’ll check it out :)

[@That_Handle]

Thanks. Had no idea YT had implemented creation of chapters triggered by inclusion of timestamps in the vid. description. Been a while since I've uploaded.

[@parsa110]

Honestly all Medal of Honor games are amazing Warfighter included

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

There’s some that could be better like moh vanguard but I enjoy most of them :)

[@parsa110]

@@joethealternativegamer3935 oh btw your videos are phenomenal

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

@@parsa110 thank you very much :) I plan on covering each entry in the series (will probably skip the VR title)

[@emulation2369]

What about MoH pacific assault? 🤔

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Lol coming in the future! I think the GBA game came out before it 😉

[@emulation2369]

@@joethealternativegamer3935 never played MoH on gba

[@renchy7773]

♥️

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

:) Someone found my playlist!

[@TucBroder]

A very overlooked MoH game... But a great one

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

One of the underrated ones!

[@TucBroder]

@@joethealternativegamer3935 Indeed. I own all MoH games for the PS1, PS2 and PS3... And this is still amongst my favorites.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

@@TucBroder rising sun is one of my favorites as well.

[@Cat_in_The-Box]

I hate game journalists dooming this game from getting conclusion to the story in form of sequel, also hate ea. I love this game, more than frontline even, spent lots of time playing both campaign and multiplayer. I love the characters. Bromley is my bro.

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

Underrated!!!

[@dimitriofthedon3917]

*OH MY GOD WE LOST THE ARIZONA* God help her... This can't be happening... 8 year old me was SHOOK

[@amazingman63]

Medal of honor was the best series

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

It was wonderful

[@mythicdale8757]

I thought this game represented the beginning of the end of MoH. Frontline was a huge cinematic jump up from the PS1 games and this just felt tired and muddy.

[@proto-geek248]

I wish this narrator didn't use that stupid, overused, newscaster vocal inflection at the end of every sentence.

[@Some_Guy6]

I agree. And some missions too long? Heck, i wish they where even longer!

[@lexadams4259]

What are you smoking, that game was trash. A rushed complete downgrade to Frontline. Some cool ideas but horrid execution. As a young playing that I was annoyed at that game

[@joethealternativegamer3935]

You are wrong