_FUN FACT_ The main villain of this game, Commander Masataka Shima is played by Makoto Iwamatsu. Makoto or "Mako" as he's mostly simply known as was quite a prolific actor in late 20th century films and even did plenty of voice work late in his life. As a kid in the 2000's you may recognize his voice as Aku, in Samurai Jack and Uncle Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Yes! This game was my childhood. My grandfather, a Vietnam vet who lost his arm and leg in the war, taught me how to play video games as a way to bond. We played the coop campaign and loved it; he was better at the game than I was. He'd sit with the controller on his leg and play with his thumb. RIP Papa, I miss you, man.
That pearl harbor mission blew my f-ing mind as a kid. Running through the ship in a panic to see the devastation once top side, i knew of pearl harbor, but this was the first time i "saw" pearl harbor.
I remember being a kid asking my Grandma to get me a military shooter game for my PS2 for my birthday. She didn't know anything about video games, so she asked the worker would be a good T rated game because she refused to buy me anything M rated. The worker apparently gave her this game and said, "He's going to love this" and that's how I got my first FPS game. Boy was he right. I obsessed over this game and it opened up my love for WW2 history. I can remember spending hours upon hours just playing the multiplayer with bots because I didn't have online. I remember when COD Black Ops came out everyone was praising how you could play multiplayer with bots and I was like, "Wait, my old game MOH Rising Sun did this 8 years ago" lol Such an underated game.
Oh my god at last, i have waited in anticipation for this! That one scene at the end of the Philippines mission has been burned into my brain since i played the game as a child. Just the desperation of seeing the japanese soldiers swarming up the Stuart tank as your brother is trying to hold them of off with a shotgun while you escape on the truck, your last glimpse of him as you round the courner as he is overwhelmed by their numbers. The intensity of the first mission also stuck with me. Just straight into the desperate action, and such a visual scene of the destruction at Pearl Harbor
9:46 This cutscene right here serves as a critique for modern depictions of World War II in AAA gaming. That hits HARD as more and more veterans are succumbing to old age. Less people to tell the story as it really was. It's our responsibility as their successors to tell the stories right. It was a real war. Real people died. "Nobody will ever know what it was like, but maybe the ones who lived through it. You just be damned sure you don't forget the ones who didn't."
Even older videogames aren't really accurate especially MOH titles where you're a one man army wiping out enemies. At the end of the day they're games that are focusing more on the entertainment side than the historical one. I don't love most modern WW2 games but don't understand the outrage since they're just games, not history books. I'd love more games that were focused on the history and single player, not that many of those sadly.
@@3xasfast811 I'm not as outraged as some other people. I tried to frame my comment in a more moderate way, but I know I definitely didn't succeed in that. I meant like nickel and diming through absurd microtransactions, battle passes, that BS. Not just sensationalizing the setting. Any game is gonna do that.
@@3xasfast811I think these games do so well because you are just a set character that is essentially touring through real shit that any of our grandfathers or great grandfather's could have very easily been a part of statistically, which makes it a visceral depiction that helps kids understand these stories in a light that films and grainy combat footage just can't quite do. It could use a remaster though.
I played this game so much the disk stopped working. I had to buy it again. It's one of my favorites, and I'm so glad you're bringing me through this experience again.
1:47:00, from what I gathered from the wiki, its is explained in Medal Of Honor: Heroes that Joseph did eventually rescue his brother, but thats about it. In Rising Sun 2, his brother was supposed to be the player character, but that was canceled.
A saw a preview in a magazine before the game came out with a list of levels, and it’s seems two were removed to get the game out in time. One where you escape from Singapore, and the other being the famous rescue mission at Cabantuan POW camp, so presumably at some point you would have rescued Donnie and killed Shima.
Can't wait for you to play Pacific Assault one day. That game is my favorite in the entire Medal of Honor franchise, and it's probably one of my favorite games all time.
The Pacific front is such an underrated part of the war in comparison to the usual America vs Nazi story we're accustomed too. So anytime its represented in video game form its always a welcome surprise.
I'd say it's underrepresented in video games but it's what got the US in the war, it's no way underrated. Maybe it's just my experience in the US where I had the Pacific theater shoved down my throat and then we were taught "and the US saved the day in Europe." Often it's the other allies, resistance, and North African theater that many don't talk about. I think we see less media of it because of all the shit the US did, camps for Japanese people and all the other atrocities.
Im loving these series. Needless to say this game is obviously rough around the edges, but still somehow feels so legendary because of the whole presentation value. The artistic direction, while extremely poor and dated in terms of quaity, is just on spot. Nobody should blame you for not finding secrets because some of them are quite convoluted if you dont know where to look, and would require multiple playthroughs to find everything. Conveniently you found the Machete but funny enough didnt know where to use it. Im glad to see that my own wiki entry of the game's secrets slowly proves useful to people. Over the last 12 months i revisited the game on ps2 emu with two main playthroughs around four months appart and after the second one i researched and recorded all i could of the secrets. Then around three months ago i reported everything i found on the games wiki so its information that people will be able to use in the future. It would suck that such gemes with their depth would be left unexplored and undocumented in history. The two main things you are looking for are the machete and the trench tool (a shovel) which is found in the basement of the temple in the doors you couldnt enter. More on that in the wiki.
Makes me think of some of the super convoluted secrets in call of duty finest hour. To this day ive never ever seen someone else online mention the secret DPM machine gun underneath some stairs you can crawl under early in the 3rd missions sewer segment
@@everythingsalright1121 that is fascinating indeed. That mg you mentioned sounds like a mistake from the developers rather than a secret unless I am mistaken because I haven't seen it myself. I have heard about it having crazy secrets, and I might have found some myself on my run of the game a few years ago, but I didn't care to explore further I don't know why.
Man this takes me back. Back when I was a kid i would visit my dad at the fire station. Since the fire station was their second home the fireman would bring their game systems over to use in between calls. I felt like a king playing this in front of the biggest guys I've ever seen. Medal of Honor,COD1 2 and 3 and this are engraved in my memory I'm in my early 20s now and my dad is now retired after 30 years in but seeing this brought that all back thanks for making this content I appreciate you.
Fun fact: the name of the carrier Toshikaze doesn't conform to Japanese carrier naming conventions; Japanese carriers were named for mythical creatures like eastern phoenixes and dragons, while destroyers were the ones that typically had the element -kaze, meaning wind, in their names. Because carriers that were converted from another ship class kept their old names, even when they didn't match up to the convention, the game accidentally implies that Toshikaze is a fleet carrier built on a destroyer hull.
Thank you for this insight! Great little bit of knowledge. I love all sorts of vehicles especially World War Two era ships and am quite fond of the IJN and USN so it's cool to know the Japanese had a naming scheme I just assumed akatsuki and shimakazi were just random words that sounded alike
Yeap, While the Name Toshikaze is definitely a destroyer name by convention, In the subtitles it refers to the ship as "Phoenix 1". I think this hints at an earlier draft of the story possibly referring to this ship as Taihou by name, a ship of a similar type which was sunk due to fuel vapors spreading through the ship and igniting. The name Taihou incidentally meaning "Great Phoenix".
Growing up a Nintendo kid, this was probably one of the first more-serious FPS games I played so I really enjoyed it. Was always bummed about the unresolved cliffhanger.
I haven't played this game since I was like 7 years old. I never realized how incredible the opening sequence is. As an adult actually knowing the history it's just crazy how accurately they captured that day. And the accuracy of how the Arizona sank blew me away, and how the gameplay comes to a stop while you witness it sinking just hits on an emotional level many games can't achieve nowadays. "You just be sure you don't forget the ones who didn't" that line hits so much harder, this mission wasn't just an opportunity to experience pearl harbor in a game, but to remember pearl harbor in all it's infamy.
I was a huge MOH kid growing up played a ton of frontline, rising sun, vanguard, European assault and some airborne but for some reason rising sun has such a special place in my heart
I remember playing this game when i was a kid, never pass the third mission, first because i was so lost in the map and just run in circles. Second, as a kid in Brazil, i dont understand english at all. Seeing this video made me nostalgic, thanks Sour.
I had a couple at my church growing up who worked at the library, they lived through Pearl Harbor. The husband was a sailor and his wife was visiting family at the time. Happiest couple you’ll ever have met. Neither one of them talked about what they witnessed. If you brought it up or ever checked out a history book from their library covering the subject their smile would just disappear. You can see the shadow form on their faces. They weren’t the same for a few minutes before they recovered again.
Frontline was my first fps and WW2 game, and as such holds an incredibly special place in my heart thanks to nostalgia... But Rising Sun and it's co op campaign were arguably a bigger part of my childhood. Alongside the original Battlefronts and Conflict Desert Storm, these were the go to couch co-op games I would play with my siblings and even father. Thank you for continuing this excellent series. It's one thing getting to experience these games yet again, but another entirely with your fun commentary and excellent editing.
The items like the machete are locked to your save. If you go back and replay missions. You can use items like the machete to access areas that weren’t previously accessible. There is also a shovel that can be used in certain missions. In the mission In Search of Yamashita’s Gold. Those odd “plywood” doors you saw near the jail cell with the pilot can be accessed as well though I don’t remember exactly how.
I’m so happy you’re finally playing this one! My childhood! My ps2 had a memory card corruption thing, where we basically had to restart some games every time, this was one I Loved. I hope you had as much fun as I did.
This was the one. Ive been watching the entire MoH series you made. This game I played that intro mission over and over. It was my favorite. You’ve brought a sense of nostalgia to me and gained a follower.
So much nostalgia in this one. I played this over and over when I was younger. I do remember the open missions did make it kind of hard to find where to go next.
Played this game as a child on the PS2 and it was a blast! My brother and I would take turns screen sniping each other on split screen. Fun fact, on the third mission (Midnight Raid on Guadalcanal) there's an ammo box by one of the huts that's called "Type 100 Magazine" or something similar. I picked it up a number of times but couldn't figure out what it was for. Turns out the Type 100 smg was going to be a useable weapon but it got cut. Apparently the devs missed removing some of its ammo. Thanks for bringing back some great childhood memories.
Probably went throught this game with my nephew atleast 5 times back in 03-04. We were 7-8 years old but he had way older brothers that always had the latest console and games. Good times... Great co-op experience, played it again for the first time in years with another friend and still had a great time.
I cannot tell you how much I look forward to every upload of your playthroughs lol. This game is pure nostalgia, I remember begging my mom to rent this game for me at blockbuster back in the day. Also, please I hope you continue to play the halo series!! As I'm sure many people do, I get flashbacks of when I was a kid when you play its great 😆
aah!! thanks for returning!! I was just looking at retrospective reviews of this game a few days ago wondering when S0ur will be playing this. This game brought back loads of memories from my elementary school days. I hope you'll be back soon with Pacific Assault. That's another fun one :) :)
Best game in the series! Especially the multiplayer with friends or bots. Also you should've played the PS2 version because it has more content then the Gamecube version.
Oh? Sorry for what I missed. I tried to research console differences quite a bit and couldn't find a bad word about it, but am always limited by trying to avoid watching videos for spoilers. In general I assume Xbox >> GCN > PS2 due to the processing power of the consoles, but GCN often provides a much smoother emulation experience, where the others might stutter or have some issues
@@S0ur the Xbox and PS2 versions has more FMV's but that's about it. Also the PCSX2 emulator nowadays is pretty smooth in general. You can also have a 60FPS patch too.
I would like to recomend one game to be added to the list: Men of Valor. It's basically Medal of Honor: Vietnam but not called that (though if it were made today it 100% would've been). It's made by 2015, the same people who made Allied Assault. It's kinda forgotten now, but I do remember the first level where you play football in bootcamp.
Frontline, Rising Sun and European Assault were my childhood on PS2, I consider that the GTA trilogy and the Ace Combat PS2 Trilogy to be the best games of that era
My favorite game to play before I got my Xbox 360. I spent too much time playing with bots in deathmatch just having simple, thoughtless fun.. I genuinely feel sad thinking of those days.
My sister and I would play this game after high school on Fridays and Saturday nights. We loved it and talked about it all week waiting to play. We didn't have internet so it was really nice to be able to play against bots on multiplayer once we finished the campaign
I used to play this game so much on the ps2 as a kid. I loved the campaign, especially the Singapore one. I remember playing splitscreen with my cousin too. The baseball field map and the battleship map are the ones I instantly remember.
That baseball field map on split screen multiplayer was awesome. I'd get in the dugouts and use them like fox holes lighting up anyone who'd come along. And the tunnels were scary when you never knew if an enemy was around the corner. We didn't have internet so we played against bots
Fun secret, during the mortar vs tank section of the Pistol Pete mission, you can destroy the tank quickly then destroy some of the rocks still in line of sight for hidden goodies. I think one of them may have been a secret bonus objective. Anyways, the complexity of this game, its mechanics, and it's easter egg make it the game that i would spend $100 million on a remaster for. Exactly the same game, just new textures, very occasional new SFX when they would make sense, and EXACTLY THE SAME PLOTLINE AND DIALOGUE. It'd be pretty much perfect.
I've been a fan for a long time and been watching every one of these uploads (CoD Finest Hour and MoH Frontline were huge nostalgia trips for me) but let me tell you, I am AMPED for seeing you play Halo 2.
I played the crap out of this game as a kid. It was always so fun. I was tickled pink when I realized that the AI react differently to getting shot in the groin. I’ve never come across that level of detail in any FPS game since.
I waited for this one for a while, me and my dad used to play the hell out of this game, and him being a former Marine loved seeing them get the limelight, I just lost him last year to lung cancer, so thank you S0ur from the bottom of my heart playing this
Holy crap, my second played, but favourite, classic MoH game. Can't wait to see this. Been waiting for this for so long. I remember spending so long on this game back when I was a kid. Seeing it all again is gonna be a blast from the past. Go get 'em S0ur!
I really enjoyed you doing Frontline it was a fun video even though there was a lack of checkpoints but excited to see how the Rising Sun one is!😃 I still remember the days my older brother and i would play Rising Sun Coop on our Gamecube 4-5 year old me really got into it when i saw the carnage on the first level and its a moment ill never forget its one of the reasons i got into Military History as a kid
I'm loving the old WWII playthroughs. The nostalgia is strong. They are thoroughly enjoyable. However, the surprise of Halo showing up on this channel was something wholly unexpected and exciting. The second game will be a treat to watch for sure.
This and Frontline were my introduction into FPS WW2 games. I played Frontline before this one, but this one I remember so well, even though I last played it around 19-20 years ago when my dad bought it for the GameCube. What a game. The places you get to go, the exhilarating missions. Especially the stealth missions, both Guadalcanal and the one in the port when your operator has a single shot welrod. Incredible. Pistol Pete Showdown was one of the best level designs of any FPS around that time, and the cliffhanger ending to this game always made me so mad. "What do you mean I can't save him?! Or kill the Commander?!" All in all, a wonderful piece of my childhood that I can still remember quite well considering.
Looks like pacific assault is next. I wonder how S0ur will handle having very few health kits in the mission and instead having to utilize a limited number of full heals. I also wonder if he's gonna hate the plane level like I did...that game also rewards exploration though so he can make it a lot easier if he searches for the really good hidden weapons. Like in some levels you can get sniper rifles or LMGs off the beaten path. The iron sights Springfield is also a one shot kill to the body if you can find it.
Welp if you had fun here , have fun going trough some of the exact same parts of levels in pacific assault. PA has a lot of funny mechanic (and some actually commedable like tracking ammo in each individual enemy weapon) like reusing the number of enemies you killed in certain levels for defense segments in other levels with the finale of the game making you fight all the enemies you killed in the entire second mission.
I had so much fun with this game way back in the day. I loved that it had split screen co op, and I loved the multiplayer split screen with bots added. So many hours of my friends playing this. Absolute classic. Doubt it's aged well though. Remember all my friends loved the elephant bit though, and the bazooka.
Been waiting for this one and European assault as they were my favorite two. The machete can open those bushes you saw. Lots of the missions have those areas. There is also shovel you can find to dig up some piles. They just give you cheat codes but adds nice replayability. Once you find the tools they save so you can go back to previous missions and use them.
This was my first shooter and I had a blast with this game. I forget what it was called, but the arena mode was similar to COD and I spent many hours playing against the AI. I know it’s dated, but Singapore Sling is one of my favorite levels of a game ever. Thanks for the nostalgia.
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_FUN FACT_ The main villain of this game, Commander Masataka Shima is played by Makoto Iwamatsu. Makoto or "Mako" as he's mostly simply known as was quite a prolific actor in late 20th century films and even did plenty of voice work late in his life. As a kid in the 2000's you may recognize his voice as Aku, in Samurai Jack and Uncle Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Damn…
Nuh uh, shuddup. You go against Aku's forces in this?!
@@1SilverDollar I knew that was Iroh
Also General Kim in True Crime: Streets of LA
Oh also and Pfc. Ichiro Tanaka is played by Yuri Lowenthal. You probably recognize his voice in like all video games like ever in the last 20 years.
Yes! This game was my childhood.
My grandfather, a Vietnam vet who lost his arm and leg in the war, taught me how to play video games as a way to bond. We played the coop campaign and loved it; he was better at the game than I was. He'd sit with the controller on his leg and play with his thumb.
RIP Papa, I miss you, man.
That makes sense the original movement in the game was controlled by one stick so he kind of had the advantage. Thats awesome.
Thats pretty kool! RIP.
That pearl harbor mission blew my f-ing mind as a kid. Running through the ship in a panic to see the devastation once top side, i knew of pearl harbor, but this was the first time i "saw" pearl harbor.
The reveal of it all when you get up the stairs is fantastically done!
Same with my 10/11 years playing that mission trying my best to destroy torpedos and save the guys inside the ship
Watching this scene unlocked a lost memory of playing this game at a sleep over as a child
I remember being a kid asking my Grandma to get me a military shooter game for my PS2 for my birthday. She didn't know anything about video games, so she asked the worker would be a good T rated game because she refused to buy me anything M rated. The worker apparently gave her this game and said, "He's going to love this" and that's how I got my first FPS game. Boy was he right. I obsessed over this game and it opened up my love for WW2 history. I can remember spending hours upon hours just playing the multiplayer with bots because I didn't have online. I remember when COD Black Ops came out everyone was praising how you could play multiplayer with bots and I was like, "Wait, my old game MOH Rising Sun did this 8 years ago" lol Such an underated game.
Ah if only more games had bots these days
Same lol I didn’t have internet at that time so playing with bots was so fun.
100% same! The good old days
Oh my god at last, i have waited in anticipation for this!
That one scene at the end of the Philippines mission has been burned into my brain since i played the game as a child. Just the desperation of seeing the japanese soldiers swarming up the Stuart tank as your brother is trying to hold them of off with a shotgun while you escape on the truck, your last glimpse of him as you round the courner as he is overwhelmed by their numbers.
The intensity of the first mission also stuck with me. Just straight into the desperate action, and such a visual scene of the destruction at Pearl Harbor
The Arizona scene and the scene you described were the exact same way for me. Crazy nostalgia. Playing coop with my friends. Good times lol
It's so fucking good. This game gave us some damn good moments
medal of honor pacific assault has some pretty good pearl harbor levels.
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Loved this game as a kid a had on the gamecube 😂
9:46 This cutscene right here serves as a critique for modern depictions of World War II in AAA gaming. That hits HARD as more and more veterans are succumbing to old age. Less people to tell the story as it really was. It's our responsibility as their successors to tell the stories right. It was a real war. Real people died.
"Nobody will ever know what it was like, but maybe the ones who lived through it. You just be damned sure you don't forget the ones who didn't."
Even older videogames aren't really accurate especially MOH titles where you're a one man army wiping out enemies. At the end of the day they're games that are focusing more on the entertainment side than the historical one. I don't love most modern WW2 games but don't understand the outrage since they're just games, not history books. I'd love more games that were focused on the history and single player, not that many of those sadly.
@@3xasfast811 I'm not as outraged as some other people. I tried to frame my comment in a more moderate way, but I know I definitely didn't succeed in that.
I meant like nickel and diming through absurd microtransactions, battle passes, that BS. Not just sensationalizing the setting. Any game is gonna do that.
@@walnzell9328 Of course fuck MTX in general, really ruins any game. Thought season passes were the end but nope it got worse. Definitely understand.
@@3xasfast811 It is also a comedic whiplash with how ridiculous the game gets.
@@3xasfast811I think these games do so well because you are just a set character that is essentially touring through real shit that any of our grandfathers or great grandfather's could have very easily been a part of statistically, which makes it a visceral depiction that helps kids understand these stories in a light that films and grainy combat footage just can't quite do.
It could use a remaster though.
THE CROCIDILE SCENE SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME GROWING UP
Me too! It was so weird that MoH became a horror game for a moment - it's easy to see where World at War took inspiration from
Playing on a Crt in a dark room, at night, and that 4 pixel crocodile was the scariest thing on earth when it happened.
Iconic af
@@jackbassindale4336war is hell and horror and sometimes it should treated as that
@@Dan_the_afol oh absolutely. I just wasn't expecting it in a MoH game, but it was a welcome addition
I played this game so much the disk stopped working. I had to buy it again. It's one of my favorites, and I'm so glad you're bringing me through this experience again.
Thanks, my pleasure!
@@S0ur Japanese traded armor for speed. So their planes where unarmored but FAST.
You can actually save Harrison (the guy who died blowing up the bridge) by hitting action even though it's not prompted.
D:
Out of the time I replayed this game I never tried that
What!?
@@kylewatson6890yupp. It's one of the secret objectives for Pistol Pete if I remember correctly.
You have to be actually behind him to do that if my memories serves me correctly
1:47:00, from what I gathered from the wiki, its is explained in Medal Of Honor: Heroes that Joseph did eventually rescue his brother, but thats about it. In Rising Sun 2, his brother was supposed to be the player character, but that was canceled.
A saw a preview in a magazine before the game came out with a list of levels, and it’s seems two were removed to get the game out in time. One where you escape from Singapore, and the other being the famous rescue mission at Cabantuan POW camp, so presumably at some point you would have rescued Donnie and killed Shima.
Can't wait for you to play Pacific Assault one day. That game is my favorite in the entire Medal of Honor franchise, and it's probably one of my favorite games all time.
It's HARD too
We'll see how he fares with limited full heals to use every mission. Its also fairly hard
Our Patience has Paid off, Huzzah! This was the Medal of Honor Game I had growing up! Thanks for playing this!
The Pacific front is such an underrated part of the war in comparison to the usual America vs Nazi story we're accustomed too. So anytime its represented in video game form its always a welcome surprise.
Another unrepresented part of the war is chinese front too
I'd say it's underrepresented in video games but it's what got the US in the war, it's no way underrated. Maybe it's just my experience in the US where I had the Pacific theater shoved down my throat and then we were taught "and the US saved the day in Europe." Often it's the other allies, resistance, and North African theater that many don't talk about. I think we see less media of it because of all the shit the US did, camps for Japanese people and all the other atrocities.
@@3xasfast811 That's not that deep bro
@@alp7292 Sorry lemme readjust bro I'll go deeper
@@3xasfast811 "other allies" won the war, not america xd
Im loving these series. Needless to say this game is obviously rough around the edges, but still somehow feels so legendary because of the whole presentation value. The artistic direction, while extremely poor and dated in terms of quaity, is just on spot.
Nobody should blame you for not finding secrets because some of them are quite convoluted if you dont know where to look, and would require multiple playthroughs to find everything. Conveniently you found the Machete but funny enough didnt know where to use it.
Im glad to see that my own wiki entry of the game's secrets slowly proves useful to people. Over the last 12 months i revisited the game on ps2 emu with two main playthroughs around four months appart and after the second one i researched and recorded all i could of the secrets. Then around three months ago i reported everything i found on the games wiki so its information that people will be able to use in the future.
It would suck that such gemes with their depth would be left unexplored and undocumented in history.
The two main things you are looking for are the machete and the trench tool (a shovel) which is found in the basement of the temple in the doors you couldnt enter. More on that in the wiki.
Makes me think of some of the super convoluted secrets in call of duty finest hour. To this day ive never ever seen someone else online mention the secret DPM machine gun underneath some stairs you can crawl under early in the 3rd missions sewer segment
@@everythingsalright1121 that is fascinating indeed. That mg you mentioned sounds like a mistake from the developers rather than a secret unless I am mistaken because I haven't seen it myself. I have heard about it having crazy secrets, and I might have found some myself on my run of the game a few years ago, but I didn't care to explore further I don't know why.
Man this takes me back. Back when I was a kid i would visit my dad at the fire station. Since the fire station was their second home the fireman would bring their game systems over to use in between calls. I felt like a king playing this in front of the biggest guys I've ever seen. Medal of Honor,COD1 2 and 3 and this are engraved in my memory I'm in my early 20s now and my dad is now retired after 30 years in but seeing this brought that all back thanks for making this content I appreciate you.
Bro same here but with brother instead of my dad
There is a house in New Orleans
they call the Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003)
And it's been the love of many adolescent boys, and Lord I know I'm one of them.
I appreciate this to an extreme degree.
@@edreynolds8721 you're such a wet blanket
This is a shot of pure childhood nostalgia! The Bridge on the River Kwai was always my favorite level because of the train!
Fun fact: the name of the carrier Toshikaze doesn't conform to Japanese carrier naming conventions; Japanese carriers were named for mythical creatures like eastern phoenixes and dragons, while destroyers were the ones that typically had the element -kaze, meaning wind, in their names. Because carriers that were converted from another ship class kept their old names, even when they didn't match up to the convention, the game accidentally implies that Toshikaze is a fleet carrier built on a destroyer hull.
Thank you for this insight! Great little bit of knowledge. I love all sorts of vehicles especially World War Two era ships and am quite fond of the IJN and USN so it's cool to know the Japanese had a naming scheme I just assumed akatsuki and shimakazi were just random words that sounded alike
Yeap, While the Name Toshikaze is definitely a destroyer name by convention, In the subtitles it refers to the ship as "Phoenix 1". I think this hints at an earlier draft of the story possibly referring to this ship as Taihou by name, a ship of a similar type which was sunk due to fuel vapors spreading through the ship and igniting. The name Taihou incidentally meaning "Great Phoenix".
Akagi means Red Castle- so not all carriers stuck to the dragon/bird motif.
@@Booze_Rooster Akagi was a battlecruiser conversion that kept its original name after being converted
@@Halocon720 good catch. I totally forgot that.
When I found your channel originally I was hoping for this game, but expected it would come eventually....and you have delivered!!!!
Growing up a Nintendo kid, this was probably one of the first more-serious FPS games I played so I really enjoyed it.
Was always bummed about the unresolved cliffhanger.
One of the later games they made supposedly they tied up the story line with Griffin brother being killed.
@@jacksonthompson7099nah it was implied that Griffin would rescue his brother in a future POW raid mentioned in another game's ending
I haven't played this game since I was like 7 years old. I never realized how incredible the opening sequence is. As an adult actually knowing the history it's just crazy how accurately they captured that day. And the accuracy of how the Arizona sank blew me away, and how the gameplay comes to a stop while you witness it sinking just hits on an emotional level many games can't achieve nowadays. "You just be sure you don't forget the ones who didn't" that line hits so much harder, this mission wasn't just an opportunity to experience pearl harbor in a game, but to remember pearl harbor in all it's infamy.
Anyone literally plan their whole day so you can schedule time to watch the whole thing?! Love your vids maaaaaan ❤
I was a huge MOH kid growing up played a ton of frontline, rising sun, vanguard, European assault and some airborne but for some reason rising sun has such a special place in my heart
Rising sun you mean right?
Yes😂 so used to playing rising storm as well lol@@Hamentsios10
I grew up with European Assault. I think it has the best score and game play compared to the others
I remember playing this game when i was a kid, never pass the third mission, first because i was so lost in the map and just run in circles. Second, as a kid in Brazil, i dont understand english at all. Seeing this video made me nostalgic, thanks Sour.
Well, your English nowadays is better than most RUclips comments from those born in the US! ❤
The Night Raid on Guadacanal kinda spooked me as a kid in the early 2000s
Forgot how historically accurate the pearl harbor mission was, there's some issues but how all the ships were destroyed is dead on.
The Attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the most memorable levels from my childhood, is was such a good game especially for the GameCube era
I had a couple at my church growing up who worked at the library, they lived through Pearl Harbor. The husband was a sailor and his wife was visiting family at the time. Happiest couple you’ll ever have met. Neither one of them talked about what they witnessed. If you brought it up or ever checked out a history book from their library covering the subject their smile would just disappear. You can see the shadow form on their faces. They weren’t the same for a few minutes before they recovered again.
Frontline was my first fps and WW2 game, and as such holds an incredibly special place in my heart thanks to nostalgia... But Rising Sun and it's co op campaign were arguably a bigger part of my childhood. Alongside the original Battlefronts and Conflict Desert Storm, these were the go to couch co-op games I would play with my siblings and even father.
Thank you for continuing this excellent series. It's one thing getting to experience these games yet again, but another entirely with your fun commentary and excellent editing.
The items like the machete are locked to your save. If you go back and replay missions. You can use items like the machete to access areas that weren’t previously accessible. There is also a shovel that can be used in certain missions.
In the mission In Search of Yamashita’s Gold. Those odd “plywood” doors you saw near the jail cell with the pilot can be accessed as well though I don’t remember exactly how.
True check the wiki of the game I've inserted as much as I could find about these secrets
yess!!! finally I have been waiting you to upload and play
57:53 this HAS to be uncle Iroh's voice actor right!?
Yes
It is 😂 I looked him up and it was Iroh
Same guy yes
It is
As I was watching through I heard it too! Came to the comments and this was the first one that showed up 🤔🤔 good ear my dude lol
Nice video! Super excited for you to keep up with the Halo series!!!
I’m so happy you’re finally playing this one! My childhood! My ps2 had a memory card corruption thing, where we basically had to restart some games every time, this was one I Loved. I hope you had as much fun as I did.
This was the one. Ive been watching the entire MoH series you made. This game I played that intro mission over and over. It was my favorite. You’ve brought a sense of nostalgia to me and gained a follower.
Damn I was wondering when you were going to post you just made my day thank SOur
So much nostalgia in this one. I played this over and over when I was younger. I do remember the open missions did make it kind of hard to find where to go next.
This game was my childhood thanks for posting this
Played this game as a child on the PS2 and it was a blast! My brother and I would take turns screen sniping each other on split screen. Fun fact, on the third mission (Midnight Raid on Guadalcanal) there's an ammo box by one of the huts that's called "Type 100 Magazine" or something similar. I picked it up a number of times but couldn't figure out what it was for. Turns out the Type 100 smg was going to be a useable weapon but it got cut. Apparently the devs missed removing some of its ammo. Thanks for bringing back some great childhood memories.
Having to watch you go past all the secrets and bonus objectives had me screaming at my phone 🤣🤣. I love this game so much.
this is probably my most played medal of honor and my favorite one this video brought me so much nostalgia
Probably went throught this game with my nephew atleast 5 times back in 03-04.
We were 7-8 years old but he had way older brothers that always had the latest console and games. Good times...
Great co-op experience, played it again for the first time in years with another friend and still had a great time.
I cannot tell you how much I look forward to every upload of your playthroughs lol. This game is pure nostalgia, I remember begging my mom to rent this game for me at blockbuster back in the day. Also, please I hope you continue to play the halo series!! As I'm sure many people do, I get flashbacks of when I was a kid when you play its great 😆
It’s crazy we’ve never seen another detailed Pearl Harbor mission from any other video game
This is definitely one of my favorite games. The story and game play is nothing less than epic. The scenes and the music made it feel so realistic.
aah!! thanks for returning!! I was just looking at retrospective reviews of this game a few days ago wondering when S0ur will be playing this. This game brought back loads of memories from my elementary school days.
I hope you'll be back soon with Pacific Assault. That's another fun one :) :)
I have played this game for so long. I love seeing these palyed through again.
My favorite WWII gamer! Good job, solider!
35:39 1:10:56 Ah yes, classic childhood memory. Just watching the enemy soldiers make sashimi out of the friendly AI. Fantastic.
He is the storm that is approaching
Ah my childhood🥺
SO Happy you made this! One of my all time childhood favs, european assault has to be next though!
Best game in the series! Especially the multiplayer with friends or bots. Also you should've played the PS2 version because it has more content then the Gamecube version.
Oh? Sorry for what I missed. I tried to research console differences quite a bit and couldn't find a bad word about it, but am always limited by trying to avoid watching videos for spoilers. In general I assume Xbox >> GCN > PS2 due to the processing power of the consoles, but GCN often provides a much smoother emulation experience, where the others might stutter or have some issues
@@S0ur the Xbox and PS2 versions has more FMV's but that's about it. Also the PCSX2 emulator nowadays is pretty smooth in general. You can also have a 60FPS patch too.
I would like to recomend one game to be added to the list: Men of Valor. It's basically Medal of Honor: Vietnam but not called that (though if it were made today it 100% would've been). It's made by 2015, the same people who made Allied Assault. It's kinda forgotten now, but I do remember the first level where you play football in bootcamp.
The Airborne game is short, hard, but fun with some good progression with the weapons
I remember playing this on the ps2 and the ship sequence still feels unique till this day😄
Frontline, Rising Sun and European Assault were my childhood on PS2, I consider that the GTA trilogy and the Ace Combat PS2 Trilogy to be the best games of that era
Nice to see we're back to medal of honour. It's a series I've not really played so the challenges are new to me as well.
My favorite game to play before I got my Xbox 360. I spent too much time playing with bots in deathmatch just having simple, thoughtless fun.. I genuinely feel sad thinking of those days.
I’m happy to see you are playing this video game. Never beat it but like it.
My sister and I would play this game after high school on Fridays and Saturday nights. We loved it and talked about it all week waiting to play. We didn't have internet so it was really nice to be able to play against bots on multiplayer once we finished the campaign
I used to play this game so much on the ps2 as a kid. I loved the campaign, especially the Singapore one. I remember playing splitscreen with my cousin too. The baseball field map and the battleship map are the ones I instantly remember.
That baseball field map on split screen multiplayer was awesome. I'd get in the dugouts and use them like fox holes lighting up anyone who'd come along. And the tunnels were scary when you never knew if an enemy was around the corner. We didn't have internet so we played against bots
Fun secret, during the mortar vs tank section of the Pistol Pete mission, you can destroy the tank quickly then destroy some of the rocks still in line of sight for hidden goodies. I think one of them may have been a secret bonus objective.
Anyways, the complexity of this game, its mechanics, and it's easter egg make it the game that i would spend $100 million on a remaster for.
Exactly the same game, just new textures, very occasional new SFX when they would make sense, and EXACTLY THE SAME PLOTLINE AND DIALOGUE.
It'd be pretty much perfect.
I've been a fan for a long time and been watching every one of these uploads (CoD Finest Hour and MoH Frontline were huge nostalgia trips for me) but let me tell you, I am AMPED for seeing you play Halo 2.
Watching that intro cutscene brings back so much nostalgia! Makes me want to fire up my PS2 again and play this again :D
I played the crap out of this game as a kid. It was always so fun. I was tickled pink when I realized that the AI react differently to getting shot in the groin. I’ve never come across that level of detail in any FPS game since.
I cant wait till you play European Assault. That menu music is genuinely so damn good.
I waited for this one for a while, me and my dad used to play the hell out of this game, and him being a former Marine loved seeing them get the limelight, I just lost him last year to lung cancer, so thank you S0ur from the bottom of my heart playing this
Holy crap, my second played, but favourite, classic MoH game. Can't wait to see this. Been waiting for this for so long. I remember spending so long on this game back when I was a kid. Seeing it all again is gonna be a blast from the past. Go get 'em S0ur!
Was not expecting to hear Aku speaking in that final level
Great game ! There alot of older games that could do with a remaster ! :D
Your teammate getting chased by the katana dude after getting bullied by them, is hilarious.😂😂 1:10:50
Got Rising sun for Xmas ! Spent all winter break playing it.
Wow, this unlocked so many damn memories… driving between the ships after the arizona blew up is a core memory of mine.
I really enjoyed you doing Frontline it was a fun video even though there was a lack of checkpoints but excited to see how the Rising Sun one is!😃 I still remember the days my older brother and i would play Rising Sun Coop on our Gamecube 4-5 year old me really got into it when i saw the carnage on the first level and its a moment ill never forget its one of the reasons i got into Military History as a kid
I'm loving the old WWII playthroughs. The nostalgia is strong. They are thoroughly enjoyable. However, the surprise of Halo showing up on this channel was something wholly unexpected and exciting. The second game will be a treat to watch for sure.
Thank you!
My first ever FPS game. So much memories!
(PS2 days flashbacks)
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I've been waiting for you to play this one.
MoH: Airborne was a huge part of my growing up. I'd love to see that some time!
I have so many memories from this game. I used to play against bots in the Multi-player for hours
S0ur vid upload day, is always a good day❤😊
This is one of the first game I remember anything about, somehow I specifically remember plunger charging dudes specifically.
This and Frontline were my introduction into FPS WW2 games. I played Frontline before this one, but this one I remember so well, even though I last played it around 19-20 years ago when my dad bought it for the GameCube. What a game. The places you get to go, the exhilarating missions. Especially the stealth missions, both Guadalcanal and the one in the port when your operator has a single shot welrod. Incredible. Pistol Pete Showdown was one of the best level designs of any FPS around that time, and the cliffhanger ending to this game always made me so mad. "What do you mean I can't save him?! Or kill the Commander?!"
All in all, a wonderful piece of my childhood that I can still remember quite well considering.
Well thanks for bring me back to 5 years old. Absolutely legendary game.
Looks like pacific assault is next. I wonder how S0ur will handle having very few health kits in the mission and instead having to utilize a limited number of full heals. I also wonder if he's gonna hate the plane level like I did...that game also rewards exploration though so he can make it a lot easier if he searches for the really good hidden weapons. Like in some levels you can get sniper rifles or LMGs off the beaten path. The iron sights Springfield is also a one shot kill to the body if you can find it.
Talk about a blast from the past. This game deserves a remaster.
Nostalgia hitting hard right now 😂 awesome game awesome vid
Welp if you had fun here , have fun going trough some of the exact same parts of levels in pacific assault. PA has a lot of funny mechanic (and some actually commedable like tracking ammo in each individual enemy weapon) like reusing the number of enemies you killed in certain levels for defense segments in other levels with the finale of the game making you fight all the enemies you killed in the entire second mission.
First shooter game i played as a kid on my dads gamecube. Man what a blast it was. Always loved putting those fires out at the start lol.
I like this, but truly truly cannot wait for the Halo 2 playthrough
I had so much fun with this game way back in the day. I loved that it had split screen co op, and I loved the multiplayer split screen with bots added. So many hours of my friends playing this. Absolute classic. Doubt it's aged well though. Remember all my friends loved the elephant bit though, and the bazooka.
This is the first metal of honor game I ever played, and I have so many fond memories of it.
Been waiting for this one and European assault as they were my favorite two. The machete can open those bushes you saw. Lots of the missions have those areas. There is also shovel you can find to dig up some piles. They just give you cheat codes but adds nice replayability. Once you find the tools they save so you can go back to previous missions and use them.
Remember when my dad first bought me this game great times
Man I remember getting this game on Christmas. It was so much fun when it came out
No strange lookin' rocket launchers and no "ah haha hoo haha" but still an excellent S0ur video. Cheers mate
As a simple creature, I love that Dale Dye is Gunny Lauton’s voice actor.
Apparently the R-2 helicopter rescue is based on a real life event. WW2 has some crazy stories.
This was my first shooter and I had a blast with this game. I forget what it was called, but the arena mode was similar to COD and I spent many hours playing against the AI. I know it’s dated, but Singapore Sling is one of my favorite levels of a game ever. Thanks for the nostalgia.
I loved this game as a kid man, I used to play the welrod mission over and over again
Awww man this brings back memories especially the letters you were sent by your sister