Pacific Theater scoring that opens with the attack on Pearl Harbor and never lets you catch your breath. "Requiem for the California" hits with this gut-punch of mournful brass over the sounds of a sinking battleship, genuinely affecting stuff for a 2003 console game.
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"Taiko Brigade" brings in traditional Japanese percussion that gives the whole Southeast Asian campaign a different sonic identity from every other WWII shooter. Then "Elephant Battle" goes somewhere completely unexpected, all thundering low drums and frenetic strings in a Burma jungle.
The score keeps surprising you like that. If you only know Medal of Honor as "the other WWII franchise," this is the one that proves it had its own voice.