The Medal of Honor that lets you ride an elephant (Rising Sun)

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.

THE CROCIDILE SCENE SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME GROWING UP

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

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.

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."

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.

You can actually save Harrison (the guy who died blowing up the bridge) by hitting action even though it's not prompted.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our Patience has Paid off, Huzzah! This was the Medal of Honor Game I had growing up! Thanks for playing this!

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003)

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.

Anyone literally plan their whole day so you can schedule time to watch the whole thing?! Love your vids maaaaaan ❤

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.

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.

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.