Classic Fodder (Cannon Fodder)

Member Name: Boriski

Product:	Cannon Fodder
Date:	02/09/01 (96 review reads)
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Advantages: Loads very quickly, Cheap

Disadvantages: Can crash because it is not windows 95 savvy

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 amusing how attatched you can get to a particular little guy as you lead him through mission after mission and he gets promoted to a high rank.

With each successive mission they get promoted and improve equivalently in capability, 4* general (if you can keep em alive that long) is the highest and you get em at private.

The main screen has a score board showing the number of deaths as a score home (you) vs away (enemy) and has a large green hill with a gravestone on for each man you lose.

As the game proceeds you will get access to grenades and rocket launchers as well as the ever amusing Hum vee. I was stuck on the level where you have to get the hum vee over a successive of jumps for weeks.

Now available on the PC at a mere £4.99 on sold out softwares label this game is a must buy as a major time distracter when you should be working. My degree may be off down the swanny but I WILL win the war!

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