Medal Of Honor - Rising Sun Readied For Japan

Thanks to GameSpot for its coverage regarding EA's imminent launch of Medal Of Honor - Rising Sun for PS2 and GameCube in Japan, and the correspondent's observation that the game's "portrayal of [the] Pacific campaign, where Japan suffered losses, [is] politely overlooked, but not by all." A review in Japanese publication Softbank Games is referenced, which reads: "This game is set in the Pacific, where deadly combat between the Japanese Imperial Army and the American Army unfolds", and GameSpot's correspondent finds "no indication that the reviewer finds anything unusual about playing as a U.S. soldier trying to defeat the WWII-era Japanese army." Other Japanese gamers surveyed had other opinions, with one suggesting that "...this is a game in which you play as a foreign soldier and try to kill troops from your own country. I bet that you couldn't even sell a game like this overseas."

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rising sun - behind the scenes

[hookedup]

on EA's official site they have a couple 'making of' videos here which were kind of interesting.

I saw the commercial the other day and coulnt believe my eyes, quite the impressive looking game.

Re:"...this is a game in which you play as a forei

[zulux]

There Japanese were nowhere near as monstrous as the Third Reich.

The Japanese were *WERSE* than the Third Reich.

From sjwar.com

Killed over 35 million
Massacred over 300,000 civilians in 6-8 weeks in Nanjing
Forced hundred of thousands to become slave laborers/sex slaves
Committed biochemical warfare in labs and battlefields over 2,700 times, causing countless deaths, and intentionally flouted the Treaty of Geneva
Dissected over 3,000 live humans without anesthesia for biochemical experiments
Never punished most war criminals; they became key government, business, and academic leaders

Re:"...this is a game in which you play as a forei

[Otter]

The Nazis imprisoned, and toward the end of the war, began mass exeuctions of Jews.

It's a small part of your point but an important detail to get straight -- that is an extremely, extremely sanitized description. The "Final Solution" plan to kill every last Jew on the planet was established in 1941 and specialized SS and SA killing units were following German troops in Eastern Europe that year. (Killing, among others, my grandfather's parents and all 11 of his brothers and sisters.) The death factories in Auschwitz and Treblinka were built starting in 1942.

So, it's true that there was an escalation in savagery, for example in the shift to bombing of civilian areas by the Allies. But the comprehensive extermination of Jews by the Nazis isn't something that "began", it was a significant part of the German war effort almost from the begining.