Cannon Fodder

Released back in 1993 by sensible software, the team also responsible for the classic Sensible Soccer games, Cannon Fodder is a mouse-driven shoot-em-up in which you control a small squad of soldiers as they fight against numerous enemies through a range of settings including jungle and desert campaigns, employing both machineguns as well as limited supplies of rockets and grenades, which can be used to blow up vehicles and buildings. The controls couldnt be simpler- one moust button makes your troops fire whilst another makes them move to your selected location, and the gameplay is both incredibly simple and hugely addictive. Your men can only take a single ...  Read the complete review

CANNON FODDER When I finally get round to writing my "Big Book of Computer Gaming History" one software development company will feature prominently from the late eighties and early nineties period. The simple genius of Parallax, a multi-directional shoot 'em up that was one of the first Commodore 64 games to utilise parallax scrolling, and the off-beat daftness of Wizball would normally be enough to have Chris Yates' and Jon Hare's Sensible Software in any gaming Hall of Fame. But when you consider these are the same chaps that also brought gamers the wonderful pin-stick sprites and superior gameplay of the best footy game ever made - the ...  Read the complete review

They say the classics are the best and in the case of this game that is certainly true. Cannon Fodder was to the best of my knowledge first released on the Amiga in 1992. At that time I paid the princely sume of £29.99 for it (then published by Virgin). It was and still is a great game. The basic principle for the player is through point and clicking (left to point to where to move and right to fire, both to use special weapons) to lead a squad of soldiers through the jungle and carry out whatever the set mission is. The soldiers are amusingly named (I believe) after staff on the in-house team responsible for its creation. It is most ...  Read the complete review

This has got to be one of the Amiga's all time classic games. Cannon Fodder is just like Lemmings except they are men, they are at war and best of all they've got weapons. This game is a point and click game. You control your little men with the mouse and make them shoot the opposition with the right mouse button. You have to get through a number of missions (I don't know how many cause I never completed it) and each mission gets progressively harder but the choice of weapons gets larger. In the levels I got up to you could use a gun, Hand grenades, A rocket launcher and a tank. There will probably be more than that but like I said, ...  Read the complete review

Cannon Fodder is, quite simply, one of the most playable and addictive games I ever played on the Amiga. From the cartoony-yet-realistic feel of the graphics to the extremely intuitive control system, even the way sounds fade in and out according to how close you are to their source - everything was put together incredibly well and shows how much thought went into the game. The premise of the game is that you guide your litte troop of soldiers through a series of increasingly tricky missions: in the jungle, arctic and desert, among other locations, picking up weapons, jumping into all kinds of vehicles, and of course blowing up the blue (enemy) guys at every ...  Read the complete review