Tonight at a glance
- Platforms
- Acorn Archimedes · Amiga CD32 · blackberry · SNES · Linux · Genesis/MegaDrive +8
- Mode
- Single player
- Age rating
- ESRB T
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- None
The story
Cannon Fodder is an action-strategy shoot 'em up game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive. The game is military-themed and based on shooting action but with a strategy game-style control system. The player directs troops through numerous missions, battling enemy infantry, vehicles and installations. Cannon Fodder has a darkly humorous tone which commentators variously praised and condemned. Its creators intended it to convey an anti-war message, which some reviewers recognised, but the Daily Star and a number of public figures derided the game. In other respects, reviewers highly praised the game, which widely achieved scores of over 90% in Amiga magazines. Amiga Action awarded it an unprecedented score, calling it the best game of the year.
- Action
- Comedy
- Warfare
- permadeath
- vietnam war
- war
- tank
- sheep
- vietnam
- zoom platform
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
Production
- Rating
- 81 / 100 · 64 players
- Developer
- Sensible Software
- Publisher
- Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc., Krisalis Software, The Hit Squad, Sold Out Sales & Marketing, Kuju Wireless Publishing
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
