Cannon Fodder 3

About

Cannon Fodder 3 throws you into the chaos of modern warfare with a squad of 500 replaceable conscripts. As a small team of soldiers, you’ll fight against vastly superior forces using strategy over sheer numbers. The game emphasizes careful planning and resource management, think cover mechanics, weapon upgrades, and using tanks, helicopters, and robots to tip the odds. Each mission feels like a high-stakes chess match where one misstep means respawning from scratch. Co-op play lets you team up to survive waves of enemies, but solo runs test your ability to adapt on the fly. The game’s charm lies in its over-the-top scenarios and relentless tension. Battles shift from icy tundras to futuristic space colonies, with enemies wielding teleporters and towering mechs. Your choices matter, capture objectives, rescue hostages, or blow things up, but don’t expect a medal for running roughshod. The military brass will punish mistakes or reward clever tactics with promotions. Released in 2012, it carries the chaotic spirit of its 90s predecessor while updating the formula with modern tech. If you like tactical shooters that punish recklessness and reward patience, this one’s a blast.

Storyline

Skirmishes take place all around the world and even in space! You'll fight throughout the day and night, in hot and cold weather, in snow and rain. The enemy is skilled - there're terrorists from all over the world and they have cutting-edge technologies at their disposal: teleportation and various mechanized combat systems. Our heroes will face great challenges - artillery strikes, insuperable force fields, automated turrets, suicide soldiers and giant humanoid robots. Your savvy will come in handy: your actions aren't limited to slaughter and destruction. You'll have to capture enemy vehicles and bases, save hostages and rescue convicts, hold the line and shoot back from the turrets, search for data discs and spare parts, repair broken robots and bypass minefields. The high command carefully watches your operation’s progress: missions can be aborted because of major offense; minor misbehavior will be reprimanded, and great achievements will be rewarded with medals and promotions. In the end, the very best soldiers will receive the greatest reward: they will return to home camp where warm army barracks, hot army food, soft army bunks and a tender drill sergeant await them.