Cannon Fodder

Disclaimer: This isn't the fault of the GoG team at all. Believe it or not, crappy ports of games to other platforms has been happening with video games for years. It's not a recent trend, and Cannon Fodder 1's DOS port is a prime example. The problem with the DOS version of this game is that runs substantially faster than it does on the Amiga. Remember that the original Amiga 500 had a 7mhz processor. You might be wondering why that is so important. Well, you'll quickly find in levels that you need inhuman mouse reflexes of a Korean StarCraft champion to dodge enemy fire. Just because it runs at a smoother framerate doesn't make it a better game. In fact, it ramps the difficulty up to the point where some levels are unwinnable. My other (minor) grief is that the music on this port uses Roland/AdLib and it sounds terrible. Trust me - get an Amiga emulator and play it on there instead.

If you are really curious of this fantastic game, play the amiga version which is much superior to this one.

You guys should look at including the OpenFodder engine (http://openfodder.com/). It works perfectly, and fixes all the complaints listed in the reviews on this page

In itself it is a great game, but like many pc-conversions of the time it doesn't hold up to the amiga version. Graphics and sound are way inferior. So if you want to play this one get a .rom and play it on an amiga emulator! Cannon Fodder II on the pc was a bit better but still not great.

The Amiga was the greatest gaming platform that ever existed, and Cannon Fodder perhaps its greatest game on it (excepting Speedball 2 and Bubble Bobble, of course). Difficult, but not the hardest game of all time (step forward Cannon Fodder II), utilising level design on a par with puzzlers and requiring reflexes more commonly found in platformers, if the gameplay was a cross between Lemmings and Syndicate, the quirkiness was undoubtedly all Sensible Software. What's often forgotten is that Cannon Fodder is essentially an anti-war game. Many of its features were misinterpreted by the mainstream British media as disrespectful, when its real intention was not to make light of war but rather to illustrate the ridiculousness of glamourised conflict. Check the story of the 'poppy' saga here, as reported by the late-great Amiga Power: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ap2/dissent/poppy.html