Cannon Fodder 3 Reviews

This game is pretty terrible, which is depressing considering how much I loved the old games. Load times are long, especially considering my computer should have zero problem with this game. The controls feel bad. The camera controls badly as well. Graphics are bad. Skip this game. I'd have more fun playing the older games.

What's not to love? My only gripe is that some earlier missions are harder to pass than later ones. Strangely or unexpectedly the bad reviews are from those who've played the game for less than an hour. Maybe the game is not for them in which case they should have refunded it instead of painting it black.

I have played the old ones, 1 and 2, and to be honest this is only a shadow compared to originals. Early 90s quality videos, huge time loadings, frames droping , awful music and crappy sounds. I wish this game was what I expected for a well known franchise like Cannon Fodder.

The play control is horrible. The camera is mapped to the mouse and whenever you move the mouse the camera follows, then it moves back to the unit on it's own. This makes me sick with the constant scrolling. Your natural instinct is to use the mouse to select things but you cannot, instead teh camera moves. I had to stop playing because the camera/mouse moving was making me sick. Which is a shame, i loved this game a sa kid, alas this new version is a major letdown.

This is a fun game that you don't need to think too much about. Yes, it's true that it takes an unbelievably long time to load between levels. It's no exaggeration to say there's ample time to make a cup of tea, boil an egg and make toast in the time it takes to load. I've done it! I considered giving it a thumbs down for that reason. But the truth is there are faster and newer games that are so much less fun than Cannon Fodder 3 and I could spend hours on an inferior modern game, be far less entertained and have no time between levels in which to chuck the hoover round or feed the cat or whatever. Other reviewers have compared it to the original Cannon Fodder and I can see why they were generally disappointed but this is essentially the same game with some modifications. There are a whole load of new weapons, gimmicks and vehicles that, on the whole, look good and are fun to try but hardly help you complete the missions at all. But I don't mind that. There's something strange about the way the game scrolls which is reminiscent of trying focus on the landscape whizzing past you while you're facing forward on a fast moving train which is distracting and irritating and takes some getting used to. It's not hard to play and not hard progress through the levels but I don't play this game for a challenge. I play it to veg out. So, I would recommend this game for those times when you just need a distraction and you don't want something that's going to take up too much brainpower.

I agree with many of the other comments good and bad. For sure there is some nostalgia, the loading times are terrible, haven't tried the fix yet. Churn thru the grunts with little remorse, seems a shame. Music could be better. Otherwise I enjoy the top down graphics, controls are easy enough and there are a fair few challenges thus far. I did not pay full price, so happy enough with my purchase to kill some time and reminisce.

I played Cannon Fodder originally on Amiga 1200 back in the 90's so this was a blast from the past to play this. Cannon Fodder 3 is a KB&M game with rebooted graphics. It's fun to play and I recommend this to any fan of the game.

Please do not buy Cannon Fodder 3. Do not let nostalgia and a low price point con you into exchanging money for this fetid turd of a game. It is an embarrassment and a tragedy that such an awful game should even be released, let alone one intended to revive one of the greatest RTS series of the 90s. Spend your money more wisely - grab the original Cannon Fodder on GOG.com for $7, then spend the remaining $10 on chocolate milk and cookies.

Having played the originals on the Amiga I was very disappointed with this version. It felt like a cheap makeover to make some quick money.

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. :-)