Sift Heads Assault 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 game developers were incredibly ambitious despite the rather limited nature of the medium. These developers don't let that stop them, however, and so there's a ton of episodic series on the internet. Sift Heads was one that became successful and grew incredibly quickly. This let the creator spawn off a couple of spin-off games and series. One of them is the Sift Heads Assault series. Let's look at Sift Heads Assault 3.

To play Sift Heads Assault 3, just run it with whatever SWF player you have.

This is very similar to the other games in the series. You control Vinnie (who's in a nifty holiday shirt this way) and move on a 2D plane while enemies approach you in the background. If you move behind some pieces of cover, you can also press the spacebar to take cover behind it, keeping yourself safe. New to this entry is melee combat - enemies will enter your plane of movement and you'll have to spam spacebar. They can hold you in place for other enemies, so they force you to position as well.

You get money based on how long you've survived, which you can use to purchase new weapons to more efficiently take down the enemy. 

Much like other wave-based survival shooters, it gets repetitive after a while, especially because there are only two maps. Sift Heads Assault 3 moves away from what made the series famous, with mixed results.