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Cannon Fodder
Description
Don't wait till you see the whites of their eyes...
Don't kid yourself it will be over by Christmas...
Don't try to shut out the screams...
And don't forget to wash your hands afterwards...
From a queue of some 360 "eager" conscripts waiting to go to war, a team of up to six will "volunteer" for each new mission. Encourage your soldiers to shoot anything that moves, throw grenades, fire bazookas, drive tanks, fly choppers, split up and do their own thing... and die... Guide your no-hoper's troop straight through deadly missions. And if you lose some of them? There's more where that came from...
FEATURES:
Don't kid yourself it will be over by Christmas...
Don't try to shut out the screams...
And don't forget to wash your hands afterwards...
From a queue of some 360 "eager" conscripts waiting to go to war, a team of up to six will "volunteer" for each new mission. Encourage your soldiers to shoot anything that moves, throw grenades, fire bazookas, drive tanks, fly choppers, split up and do their own thing... and die... Guide your no-hoper's troop straight through deadly missions. And if you lose some of them? There's more where that came from...
FEATURES:
- Easy interface means non-stop carnage
- 360 fresh-faced recruits anxiously awaiting your direct orders to shoot to kill, throw grenades, drive tanks, fly choppers, divide and conquer or run around in circles and take each other out with friendly fire
- 24 bullet spraying missions with 72 levels
- All the great sound effects like jungle noises, booming explosions, distant copter rotors and some poor soldier's dying screams
- Five types of enemies including M-16 carrying grunts, snipers, copter commandos, jeep engineers and artillery hot shots
- Guide your motley crew over hill n' dale, through jungles, freezing cold wastelands and Africa-hot deserts, annihilating the enemy and blowing up buildings on the way
- Use shameless flattery and brute force to work your way up the ranks from private to four-star general
- 8 minute cartoon introduction
© 2005 The Codemasters Software Company Limited ("Codemasters"). All rights reserved. "Codemasters"® and the Codemasters logo are registered trademarks owned by Codemasters. "Cannon Fodder"™ and featured game titles are trademarks of Codemasters. All other copyrights, trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners and are being used by Codemasters under license.
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Time to beat
7.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
28 h Completionist
11 h All Styles
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Posted on: September 26, 2025
OHGODWHY
Verified ownerGames: 402 Reviews: 3
no options
cant change anything no options
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Posted on: May 16, 2018
Rootec
Games: 71 Reviews: 1
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War never was so much fun!
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Posted on: July 25, 2022
pavo6503
Verified ownerGames: 354 Reviews: 29
Flawed, Frustrating, Fun
I had this on a collection of PC games back in 1995 or so and I always enjoyed its fast and frantic play. The critics at the time loved it as well. But many heaped compliments on it like "nearly perfect" and "Game Of The Year". But there were quite a few good RTS games at the time, and before its time, that did a few things much better. So this game should be in line for a well deserved re-master. Movement is a bit of a pain because your soldiers tend to get hung up on scenery. Fixing their pathfinding would help, or at least make the scenery less troublesome. Shooting can be difficult because you must hold the right mouse button to shoot, but if you're trying to move and shoot quickly it's easy to toss a grenade or shoot a rocket and wipe out your own team. Just assign hotkeys to grenades and rockets so we don't have to select them from the edge of the map. Finally, movement is frustrating because your pointer moves while your team moes, always trying to bring the two together. RTS games at the time were allowing your pointer to stay in the same relative position so directing units was easier. Cannon Fodder is a great game and it's definitely worth picking up, but be ready to die a lot of deaths that seemingly come from nowhere. I guess that's the appeal of this game and its message?
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Posted on: April 22, 2019
Lusty101
Verified ownerGames: 1024 Reviews: 19
REVIEW,great game,harder than I remember
Loved this game on the SNES and on the pc it isn't as good, to me graphics appeared worse especially in jungle areas than the SNES version I remember, it is a lot harder on pc due to speed of movement and AI has much more awareness of your location with their rockets so expect to loose nearly all your squad and recruits at stages 5 onwards but stage 8 I gave up on, for me I felt like I was being punished for playing the game and felt the AI was close to cheating against me the player. Overall with saying the above there is a fun game to be had here that no doubt other people will be able to handle the difficulty better than I have and if so I salute you ;)
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