Japanese version of Medal of Honor Frontline under the Shijou Saidai no Sakusen title. The same excellence of the finest WW2 PS2 FPS accessible to Japanese players in their language. The unforgettable Omaha Beach sequence retains all its emotional power.
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First-Person Shooter4 players16+
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Description
Japanese edition of EA Los Angeles' Medal of Honor - Frontline released in 2002, distributed as "Shijou Saidai no Sakusen" ("The Greatest Operation in History"). Same WWII missions and same Spielbergian staging as the Western version, with full Japanese voice acting for the main characters.
Medal of Honor - Shijou Saidai no Sakusen review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
MAX
Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
The art direction walks the conflict across occupied Europe. Beyond the inaugural beach, the game deploys a variety of carefully reconstituted theaters: alleys of bombed cities, the Dutch countryside, docks, a submarine, a plush manor serving as an enemy lair. Each mission changes setting and mood, mapping the war through its successive places.
Signed by Michael Giacchino, the orchestral score breathes the air of a great war film, from heroic fanfares to the poignant themes of the landing. The music magnifies sacrifice and bravery with a rare cinematic nobility. This symphonic breadth lastingly raised the musical standard of the shooter.
The story strings together sabotage objectives of precise stakes. Each mission entrusts the hero a concrete goal: to steal documents, sabotage installations, seize an enemy prototype, guide a vaster operation. Far from a novelistic plot, the story progresses through successive military tasks, each set in a real moment of the conflict.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Collector interest
The Japanese version of Frontline under the title Shijou Saidai no Sakusen (the greatest operation in history), released with packaging and dub specific to the Japanese market where the series stayed low-key. This native edition appeals to those wanting the original pressing of a founding war FPS in a region little drawn to the genre. Its smaller local run sustains interest above the common Western versions, in a niche of informed buyers.
Better with friends
A first-person shooter set in World War II, whose multiplayer skirmishes pit soldiers against each other in tight maps. The competition is direct and readable: hunting room by room, managing ammo and setting the ambush decide the rounds. Rougher than purpose-built arenas, it keeps a retro charm and offers snappy duels, perfect for quick challenges where rivalry climbs among friends.
Is Medal of Honor - Shijou Saidai no Sakusen still worth playing in 2026?
Released in 2002 on PS2 and known in the West as Medal of Honor - Frontline, Electronic Arts' project embodies the golden age of the World War Two first person shooter. The Omaha Beach landing, as an opening, remains a sequence of remarkable cinematic intensity, carried by Michael Giacchino's orchestral score. The campaign chains missions of careful staging. The corridor level design and a simplistic artificial intelligence betray their era. A console classic for fans of old school shooting and for anyone curious about the genesis of the genre.
