Cannon Fodder

It was fun at first but the completely unfair and random deaths setting back a big chunk of your progress quickly put me off. For some reason the roofs of the huts you have to blow up constantly crashed on top of my soldiers and killed them all instantly, running away after throwing the grenade reduced it only a bit. It was over the moment there are snipers with bazookas everywhere. Even if you know the map, position of all the soldiers, huts and ammo-packages and try to hit the bazookas with your own missiles after collecting them, they till have a larger range of vision than you and the fact, that you can't control the camera directly juts makes it worse. Even after managing the first two phases against all odds, there's always another one that is even worse and you can only save every fourth level or so. After having ragequitted multiple times, I decided, that frustration is no fun and deleted it. How did this become a classic?! I'll try the second game soon but am prepared for the worst.

The game hasn't aged well. The enemies won't fire unless they're at close range, and even then they will wait several seconds between each shot. You on the other hand can just spray them with bullets from a distance without caring about ammo or reloading. While the tempo and aesthetics are fun, shooting is just too simple (making it boring). It gets harder as the game progresses for other reasons, but I spent more time fighting the games glitches and quirks that the enemies. Some examples: 1. Pressing Esc ends the mission directly. No menu or prompt. This is frustrating since Esc commonly means "Pause and show menu", even in the past around the time this was released for PC. 2. Your men frequently get "stuck". If you walk too close to something (a building or trees for example) they will often get stuck like flies in a spider web and have to click several times to free yourself. Sometimes you have to walk close to a house to pick up a box of grenades, but get stuck, enemies come out of the house and fire at you, and you are standing right next to the grenades which isn't the best place... 3. There seems to be some glitch or glitches making enemies disappear. This happened to me at mission 2:2. I had to track back and look for enemies, but there weren't any. The level is linear and has no places to hide or miss. In the end I had to reset and the next time this didn't happen. Perhaps the enemy go "stuck" somewhere too? Also had a couple of issues I was able to resolve: * You can't run the game in fullscreen in Windows 10. There is an option for it using the Dosbox configurator, but it doesn't work. Instead use the Windows 95 or 98 compatibility mode (open the folder from Gog Galaxy and right click the executable). * If you make a mistake and reset the game (Esc) your men are still dead from the last mission, press Esc again to exit to the menu (you will lose your "phase" progress I think).

This game was a lot of fun, but I always found it very difficult. Often times you will be minding your own business and suddenly a rocket rips your squad apart.

I'm 26 now and I can look back and say 80's and early 90's tv was the best along with all the games we grew up with. Cannon Fodder is by far one of my favorite games of all time along with the other sensible soccer title. Oh how I cried when Sir Jools, Sir Jops and Sir Stu died. It is a must for any cannon fodder fan to go out and buy this again......

It´s one of my very favourite games in childhood. Unbelieveable, to play it once again, after soooo many years. Other reviews have said enough, so i just want to say, nice idea...^^ This game was the reason to make an account! Rock on