Day of Infamy is the first mission in Medal of Honor: Rising Sun.
Objectives[]
Primary[]
- Get Topside
- Extinguish Fire
- Defend USS California
Secondary[]
- Assist Engineer
- Save Crewman
Weapons[]
Bonuses[]
- Unlimited Ammunition Cheat (Entrenchment tool required)
- Film canister 1 - Don Jensen (Valor in History)
- Film canister 2 - Storyboards
- Multiplayer Skin - Navy Engineer
Characters[]
- Cpl. Joseph Griffin (Playable)
- GSgt. Jack "Gunny" Lauton
- Zwick
- Engineer Bishop K.
- Engineer Novotny G.
- Escalante
Vehicles[]
- US battleships
- A6M Zero
- Aichi D3A
- Nakajima B5N
- PT-20
Historical Info[]
The unexpected attack by more than 300 Japanese naval aircraft devastated the US Pacific Fleet; twenty-one ships were badly damaged or sunk, including eight battleships. The surprised sailors and Marines fought with the flames and wreckage of their own dying ships as well as with the enemy planes.
Trivia[]
- In concept art for the game, the sky in both Day Of Infamy and Pearl Harbor is depicted with a more realistic and less exaggerated color scheme; closer resembling the level and box art for the game.
- The name of the mission is a reference to the speech spoken about the Pearl Harbor attack by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was the President of the United States at the time of the attack.
- Shooting the torpedoes in the water instead of the airplanes makes the battle last a considerable amount of time longer.
- Only Gunny is armed with a Shotgun, while other crew member arm with Browning Automatic Rifles. Despite the medium and long range of fighting, using shotgun is useless in this situation. This may be a possible reference to General George Patton, who was claimed to have been aggressive and crazy enough to attempt to shoot down German planes using an M1911 pistol.
- Gunny using a shotgun may also be a reference to Tom Sizemore's character 'Earl' in the film Pearl Harbor. During the attack on his airfield, Earl pulls out a shotgun and shoots at the Japanese planes directly above. He uses it again in the airfields tower when Ben Affleck's character 'Rafe' brings a Japanese fighter right by them.
- When exiting the bunk room, a man in a gas mask can be seen running by. In his quote, he state that he cannot breath in the gas mask. Historically, it is claimed that most sailors discarded and/or avoided wearing gas masks due to difficulties with properly equipping them and seeing with them. Thus, explaining why the sailor unknowingly ran into the electrical wires.
- If the game is played in Co-op, about 95% of the NPCs are absent, (such as Zwick, the engineer in the gas mask who runs into electric wires, the Chef present in the kitchen, and most of the NPCs present on deck shooting at the planes).
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