I don't normally write reviews, but for this "remake" of a classic game i feel i must. Initially everything looked great; the original graphics, the same play mechanics, even the same levels along with promises that we'd have a level editor & that the Devs would "look into" getting the missing levels from the classic Z95 expansion. All was bright & rosy until August 2014; the last time the devs appear to have done anything in response to the Steam PC community beyond try and sell a copy to a Mac user. We were promised patches and fixes to the issues reported by users "Soon" and "In a week or so" Non came Over a year later in late September 2015, still nothing from the devs. The game works, the game is optimised for tablet (I.e. Non PC Users) but still has many of those bugs reported going back to release. Its controls are still clunky, we don't have a level editor or the Z95 missions, we have stupid bugs like Toughs & Pyros not being able to destroy buildings. But the devs have their game on the mobile market where they can make their money from impulse buys & people who don't care about the game beyond a 10 minute tap fest on their slates & won't moan too much about bugs & oddities. All those promises to the PC users and the Steam Users have not been acted on, no patch ever materialised and the devs have been missing in (non-)action since August 2014. Don't buy this game, support the original and locate a legit copy on ebay or amazon or somewhere else, then use the WinXP/Vista/7 launcher to run it. You'll enjoy the game a whole lot more than you would with this shamble of a remake, plus you'll have the Z95 editor, mods and improved controls, all the things you won't get here. Support this type of game by not buying this remake and going for the original. Buy the remake and you are only supporting cash grabbing devs who only seem to care about mobile compatibility and ride along on a string of broken promises and non-communication with the PC community.
If you struggled with the original, expect to find this much harder! On initial play, the game flows in more easily that Cannon Fodder 1, but soon gets far more intense. When your not fighting off hoards of soldiers in the desert, your losing men to Aliens!? A fantastic game from a genre that has really struggled to better these two gems from the 90's Even the recent Cannon Fodder 3 couldn't deliver what these could!
