Cannon Fodder

I still have the music "Heroes of War" as my ringtone.

This is propably not the version of the game you remember and you want to play. Don't buy it, it's a disaster, that can only cripple your memories.

Won't let you download the game.

War never was so much 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?