Stag

Played this game with my nephew over the holidays on his PS2. Cool game. Especially the multiplayer. That little bastard snuck up behind me a couple of times and shot me in the back of the head.

Cool game though. Takes place right at the start of WW2. The first scenario is you are a marine in a cot on a battleship in Pearl Harbor as it is being attacked. You have to find out how to get on deck before the ship sinks. For a game, it is pretty hair raising and really gives a sense of what some of these sailors had to deal with during the attack.

The rest of the scenarios follow through the rest of the war. Pretty cool.

I recommend it, but buy it at a discount or rent it. Not worth teh $49.99 I see it advertised for.

My next purchase is going to be SOCOM 2. Anyone play it yet?

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NortheastOfMostOfYa

I have to tell you, my reaction to this game is, since when did an event that cost thousands of lives suddenly become a game? Doesn't this trivialize the Pearl Harbor attack? What's next, a 9/11 game? Pearl Harbor is to a previous generation of Americans what 9/11 is to the current one - that's how serious it was/is.

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Stag

Yeah, I know what you are saying. In 50 years will we have an "Escape from the World Trade Center" game.

Honestly, I don't think it trivializes it. It gives you a feel for what it must have been like.

To me as a history buff, it sort of made me think about the things some of the sailors went through. Maybe I am a little dense, but it never dawned on me what it would be like to escape a ship under attack like that. I just thought during the attack everyone that could, just ran out like they show in Hollywood.

I was in the Navy and it still didn't occur to me because I was never under attack, the electrical wires, pipes etc...weren;t hanging all over the place, fires weren't raging. I mean you practice for this stuff all the time but having never expereinced it, it is hard to put into context. That is why some people rise to an occasion and some people freeze in panic I guess.

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Brikar

All the Medal of Honor games are excellent. I haven't played "Rising Sun" yet. But "Frontline" was amazing. "Rising Sun" is the first game of the series not set in the European theatre against the Nazis.

In no way does it trivialize the events it portrays. The series was started by Steven Spielberg at Dreamworks just after he made "Saving Private Ryan," and there's no way he'd let it become trivial. Between each mission, we get to watch actual war footage with narration explaining something about the war. The way the games are presented, with loads of research going into them about the way things were, the look and feel of the entire game, and the musical scores is much less like a game and more like some kind of interactive homage to WWII.

Now, is the game fun? Of course it is. Otherwise, why would we play it? But the impression I get of D-Day after playing "Frontline" is the same as the impression of D-Day I got after watching "Ryan" - that was explosively entertaining, but I would never, EVER want to have actually been involved in it. And now I see a glimmer of what it was like, and I have respect for those who were.

In any event, if you liked "Rising Sun," I highly recommend "Frontline". The PS2 version doesn't have multiplayer like the Gamecube version or the one for the Halo-to-TV-Adapter. The first two missions on Omaha beach alone are worth it, let alone the rest of the game. This one you can find easily nowadays on the used shelf for 20 bucks.

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