Sensible Massacre
Putting the basic visual style from Sensible Soccer to a new use, Sensible
Massacre sets you as an England goalkeeper faced with hordes of Dutch strikers
running towards you (as a patriotic dig after the Dutch football team
prevented the English one from qualifying for the 1994 World Cup). You are
armed with an infinite supply of bombs, and must use these to kill the guys
before they can reach the goal-line. They are aimed by using a crosshair
controlled by the mouse, and fired with the left button. It’s essentially
Missile Command, so aiming the bombs slightly in front of where the players
are at that moment, so as to allow for the time the bomb takes to explode and
the distance the strikers can travel in that time. Bombs leave craters in the
pitch, although these don’t appear to affect the motion of the players, and is
purely cosmetic
You can choose how long the game lasts, how fast the opposition is, and the
color of the pitch. After the game, you are told how many players are ‘home’
(killed by you) and how many are ‘away’ (reached the goal-line successfully);
the observant among you will notice the Cannon Fodder overlap.
Sensible Massacre