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Cannon Fodder

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4.3/5

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Cannon Fodder
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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 ea...
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4.3/5

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122 Reviews

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Product details
1993, Sensible Software, ESRB Rating: Teen...
System requirements
Windows 10+, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, DirectX 9.0c...
Time to beat
7.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
28 h Completionist
11 h All Styles
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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:

  • 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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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
7.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
28 h Completionist
11 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04), Mac OS X (10.15+)
Release date:
{{'1993-11-29T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Size:
35 MB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Teen (Animated Violence)

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Update (20 March 2025)
  • Tweaked DOSBox configuration to improve stability.
  • Set Roland MT-32 for music playback to enhance sound quality.
  • Switched to DOSBox version 0.74-3 to fix occasional skipping intros issue and resolve a crash in Mission 18-3.
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Posted on: June 9, 2019

Yogi3007

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Games: 486 Reviews: 1

I want my Amiga back

Jedna z najlepszych gier jakie ogrywałem na amidze, jedyne czego mi w niej brak to oryginalna muza z intr`a. "War Never been so much fun Go up to your brother Kill him with your gun Leave him lying in his uniform Dying in the sun"


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Posted on: April 27, 2009

laffer.222

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Games: 51 Reviews: 3

Awesome game!

This one is a classic! Just pure fun all the way, arcade action goodness.


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Posted on: May 3, 2012

gzd34PL

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Games: 228 Reviews: 1

classic from my childhod :D

i play o this game on My Amiga 600, from flopy disc, 100 year ago:D game error appeared on 10 mision and game stoped and broken, but i still love this game:)


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Posted on: October 28, 2021

N0w3gg

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Games: 594 Reviews: 26

Expected Cannon Fodder to be laid back

On the surface, Cannon Fodder is a top down shooter where your HP & power = the number of soldiers you control. Each individual soldier can be killed relatively easily, but the more you have the more bullets you can shoot in any given direction. So, until you've lost a few of your soldiers, combat can be pretty easy. The ways you can lose your soldiers are what's bothering me. I should preface this by saying the pathfinding is excruciatingly awful: if you don't take they time to manually steer your troops, they'll run into EVERYTHING. Usually this is fine: let them rub on the trees or try to swim, who cares so long as they get where they're going, right? Well, that's before the quicksand comes in. And explosives, which can take out your whole troop in one shot if placed right. And then there's the behavior I just can't explain. I've had half my platoon disappear for no apparent reason while the group is collectively rubbing against trees in a desperate attempt to move forward. I've had almost my entire group explode for no parent reason and had the game simultaneously call the mission a success when objectives should still be left to do! In one particular level, I won to the sound of every remaining enemy suddenly collectively crying out and dying offscreen! If the mazes that make up Cannon Fodder's levels were more interesting or simple to navigate, I could see myself liking it. However, with all the easy deaths, strange behavior, and finally annoying level design, I just can't recommend it.


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Posted on: March 24, 2009

Jaxx

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Games: 266 Reviews: 4

Cannon Fodder

War has never been so much fun.


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