Medal Of Honor - Rising Sun Readied For Japan

Posted by simoniker on Sunday November 23, 2003 @11:57AM from the you're-hitting-yourself dept.

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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Re:Playing as the bad guy is nothing new ... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-23 13:11 · Score: -1, Redundant

We're talking about a war filled with atrocities on BOTH sides of the conflict,

I resent you compareing the conduct of American and British soldiers to their Nazi and Imperial counterparts.

The Japanese and Germans slaugheted over 40 million people for no good reason - just for their sick and demented pleasure.

That's 40,000,000 people.

Dead.

Face it, the good guys won WW II.