Swords and Sandals 3 1.0

Warning: You need to have a program capable of running an SWF file to play this game. You can click here to find one such program right here on our website.

Flash games have had a ton of different genres, some of which were fully original to them. For instance, the "trainer" genre was one that really took off in the Flash game industry. This genre-focused around training a character's stat up so it can defeat its opponents in automated combat. While it's not automatic, the Swords and Sandals series. Let's look at Swords and Sandals 3.

To play Swords and Sandals 3, just run it with whatever SWF player you have.

The plot starts off with the fallout from the end of Swords and Sandals 2, where your character killed the emperor. You currently play as a fighter who fled the resulting chaos to find his or her fortune in the outskirts as a - you guessed it - gladiator.

You'll notice a massive change right off the bat -- the art style. Your character is now a hulking man - or a woman - that can now be ambiguously human as well as technicolor. Your height and weight now affects your stats as well.

The gameplay loop is similar, only now the game will tell you if a fight will be lethal or not, letting you take nonlethal fights and making it much easier to get to the ending.

All in all, Swords and Sandals 3 is a great evolution of the franchise's winning gameplay formula that made it so famous.