Supercarrier Sabotage

Supercarrier Sabotage
Previous Level	A Bridge on the River Kwai
Next Level	None
Game	Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
Character	Joseph Griffin
Weapons	Sten Mark II Type 99 LMG
Place	South China Sea
Date	July 17, 1944
Enemies	Japanese Sailor, Japanese Naval Officer, Japanese Admiral, Mitsubishi A6M Zero

Supercarrier Sabotage is the ninth and final mission in Medal of Honor: Rising Sun.

Objectives

Primary

• Open Vents (8)
• Destroy Fuel Monitors (4)
• Break Fuel Valves (4)
• Locate Gold
• Sink Carrier

Secondary

• Send False Radio Transmission
• Find Imperial Orders (3)

Characters

• Sgt. Joseph Griffin (Playable)
• Maj. Philip Andrew Bromley
• Pfc. Ichiro "Harry" Tanaka (K.I.A.)
• Pfc. Donnie Griffin (POW)
• Commander Masataka Shima
• Others:
  • Kaijo
  • Oomomo
  • Takeuchi
  • Toragami
  • Ukijima

Weapons

• Sten Mark II
• Type 99 LMG (Obtained)
• Type 92 Lewis (Mounted)

Vehicles

• Toshikaze
• A6M Zero
• Aichi D3A
• G4M "Jake"

Bonuses

Cheat - Immortality (Entrenching Tool required)

A while after the beginning, as you walk through the hallways of the ship, you will see a room on your left that you can open. It's a room with lockers, seats and a debrief board. There will be a couple pilots in there. In this room you can find a darker locker door. This is the unlockable cheat of the level. You need the Entrenching Tool to open the dark locker and collect the cheat.

Film canister 1 - Charles F Sternberg (Valor in History)

In the same room where you find the cheat, you can find the first film canister.

Film canister 2 - Storyboards

Later, after you see Shima and Donnie, you start climbing up to the carrier's bridge. In one of the rooms you can see a table with maps and various visual instruments. Near that table you can find the second film canister. You can also find the second Imperial Orders pickup on the table for bonus objective 2.

Multiplayer Skin - Commander Shima (Skeleton key required)

Right above the room where you find the second film canister, you can see a similar room that has the third Imperial Orders pickup for bonus objective 2, and in the corner behind a file cabinet, you can see the skin chest of this level. To acquire the skin from the chest, you need the level's Skeleton key.

Secret area

When you get in the hanger area with all the planes, you can see a command tower in the middle. In that tower there's the switch to open the next hanger. In there, you can also find the first Imperial Orders pickup for bonus objective 2. To the opposite side of that tower, there's a small area that's blocked by a black net. Use the Machete to cut the net open and find ammo and health pickups in the secret area.

Historical Info

Japan was quick to grasp that aircraft carriers, not battleships, were the key to domination of the Pacific. However, combat losses were high, especially in pivotal battles like Midway, where four carriers were lost. In response, Japan started a program of supercarriers with armored decks, theoretically able to withstand external damage far better than normal carriers.

Trivia

• When you enter the kitchen where one of the chefs throws knives at you, enter the attached pantry. Look on the shelves. Despite being a Japanese ship, the boxes say "Cereal" in English.
• The Japanese ship you are on bears a similar resemblance to the HIJMS Taihō. But this will be unlikely as this class only one carrier, also she sunk during Battle of the Philippine Sea by attacked submarine and got series of explosion.
• If the "Invisible Soldiers" cheat is activated, Donnie will still appear, indicating that he is programmed into the level not as a character, but as part of the setting.
• There is no two player campaign mission for this level. Instead, it ends at A Bridge on the River Kwai.
• Sushi can be found in the kitchen. When eaten, a message saying "The sushi is raw" will appear on top of the screen.
• At the end of the first cutscene, a japanese sailor can be seen holding the Type 100 Submachine gun which was cut from the game. This marks the only in-game appearance of the weapon.
• In the final shootout, when Japanese planes chase the player's plane, the player takes no damage, so he can not shoot back.

• Speaking about Supercarrier Sabotage level, another mostly likely to believed the reference to the real carrier during World War 2, it's unofficially considered as the Supercarrier, the IJN Shinano, originally Shinano being the third sister of Yamato class battleship. After the disaster at the Battle of Midway, the Japanese put every single resource build more carriers and whatever they could to convert any ship to become carrier including some merchant, oil tankers and passage liners turned into escort carriers/light carriers, Shinano was no exception, from design as improved Yamato-class battleship turn into the largest carrier in World War 2, for the role to be Aircraft deliver/ferry at largely, Aircraft/Air Group replenishment for any other carrier who suffer losses of aircraft, also maintenance carrier, did have own operational air group although only 45 to 55 aircrafts due to her purposes, She laid down Commissioning on 19th November 1944, as she departed on 28 November, on her voyage she stalked by USS Archerfish, later Shinano was struck by 4 to 6 Mark 14 torpedoes from USS Archerfish, next day capsized and sank.