CF3 is not a bad game, but it's like someone covered a wonderful gourmet meal in tomato ketchup and then tipped it onto a cheap plastic plate.

The originals Cannon Fodder's subtleness, humour, irony, attention to detail, the varying level design, music, the incredible attachment to the survivors you painfully took through 20 levels, and cried when they died. Gone. The thought and love. Gone. All covered in an inch of ketchup. Somewhere under that ketchup you can feel parts of the original meal - but all you can taste ...is the ketchup.



Note: Low hours = I played it long before Steam version came out.

I enjoyed the original Cannon Fodder for the Amiga. I had hoped that this would help me reclaim the feel of that classic game, but instead it's like someone took the basic concept of the original and then put a "2003" era spin on it.

• instead of having cool music, it's the most generic electric guitar riffs you could imagine
  
• the characters look like those "spittin image" puppets
  
• aforementioned puppets will run through a standard talking animation while the voiceover plays
  
• all the charm of the original is gone
  
• loading times straight out of the PS1 era (seriously? How? Why?)
  
• the bullet animation is really really pathetic.

• At the minimum it plays a little like the original game
  
• The Grenades seemed cool

There just isn't that much to love about this game, and a whole lot of little things to dislike (but not hate). Imagine if someone told you to take this song by Mozart and somehow update it so that "kids today" would like it. You could try to compose an original tune in his style, but instead you decide it's not worth the effort so you take Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman" in a midi file and play it through a cheap synth. Does it sound like Mozart? Well, yeah, but somehow it's just a cheezy version of twinkle twinkle little star instead.

That's how this game feels. Cheezy.

Edit: Thanks to Kudi, there's a fix for the poor load times. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=517468131

I'll have to revisit this game and see if that changes my opinion of it for the better. The load times were one of the main reasons I couldn't stand this game.

An awkward and ugly modern take on a fun old game. Somehow suffers from terrible load times on modern rigs. You're much better off tracking down the older versions.

The game information shows online coop is available. I bought two copies for me and my friend, launched the game. Coop does not work.... This is what you call being tricked by bussiness


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Cannon Fodder 3, like the previous two games, is a fun war game romp through various levels of increasing difficulty. You start off with a certain amount of troops that will travel with you through level to level mindful if you can keep them alive that is. Either point and click, use WASD, or a gamepad to control your team. Fire weapons and throw grenades. Hop into various vehicles and engage with the various details in the background.

Graphics are top down 3D, which is reminiscent of the previous first 2D games. Details are fun and colorful. Visuals are not stunning but they entirely serve the purpose to this games main groove and mojo - a colorful rendition, with touches of various details and humor, of a serious topic splattered (no pun intended) throughout.

Sound is somewhat repetive and I miss the various absurd death screams from the first game in particular - which were hilarious . Here they are more subdued but still serviceable to their goal and are fun to be sure.

I don't know why many people have not heard of this series; perhaps it has slipped under the radar for most people. I highly recommend it and hope to see a new Cannon Fodder 4 in the future with the return of the poor, enemy soldier death screams that were so comical to the first in the series. :-)

Having grown up with Cannon Fodder and Cannon Fodder 2 on the Amiga, I was a bit hesitant to buy this, bearing in mind the negative reviews about how "it wasn't good compared to the originals"

However, my friend gifted me this for my birthday and I have had a fun time with it, it has elements of the original games in it (however, remember these games were for a different time and times move on and nostalgia gives everything a rose tint!) the control system is either dual click with the mouse (left to move, right to shoot) like it used to be, or use the WASD keys to move and the mouse to shoot like some of the more modern top down shooters.

Not so sure its worth the full price but if its on sale, buy buy buy!

Anyone who grew up in the 90's and had an Amiga will know how good the Cannon Fodder games were. If this applies to you then do yourself a favour and avoid this poorly realised cash in attempt. Honestly, you will regret it.

get an emulator and play the originals

I spent a lot of time with Cannon Fodder 1 and 2 as a wee lad. The idea of playing the best parts of a military RTS without having to worry about a home base and resource management was right up my oh so narrow alley. So, naturally, when I saw Cannon Fodder 3 discounted during the Winter Sale, I scooped it. Despite a mouse/camera kink, it was exactly what I was looking for.

To see what else I have to say, and to help decided for yourself whether or not you'd like to play, check out the Cannon Fodder 3 episode of my show, Should I Play?! at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiuk4mWg_8A&feature=c4-overview&list=UUWKYL-qXKRlXN_DZjFe4HzQ

I managed to get this for a dollar during a sale, and I regret even spending that much. The game is horribly optimized (un-ending loading screens, without progress bars to let you know how long you're going to sit and listen to the looping, faux-metal). Having played the original Cannon Fodder to death on an old 486 PC, I can barely believe the people that made this game have any clue what made the original so much fun. I poured hours into mastering the original's levels, so that I could make it through with my entire squad alive, taking Jools, Jops, et al as far as I could. Grenades and rockets were a valued commodity, and placing them just right on enemy buildings made combat an almost puzzle-like experience. None of that was present in what little portion of this game I was willing to suffer through before quitting. Originally excited to see that this was being made; then disappointed that I heard it wasn't good enough to spend $20 on; then excited to find it on sale for $1; and now, back to disappointed.