Samurai Shodown III
Samurai Shodown III was to be the start of a bold new direction for the franchise. The most obvious difference between this game and the others in the series is the notably darker aesthetic. The more…
Samurai Shodown III is a fighting developed by SNK, released 15 November 1995 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and PlayStation.
What Samurai Shodown III is
Samurai Shodown III is a fighting game developed by SNK and released in 1995. It was published by D4. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo CD, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Neo Geo MVS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Samurai Shodown III: Blades of Blood is an arcade fighting game developed by SNK and released on November 15, 1995. While it is the third game in the main Samurai Shodown series, it is the first part of a two-chapter story that is chronologically set between the events of Samurai Shodown and Samurai Shodown II.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Samurai Shodown series
Samurai Shodown III is the fifth of 31 entries we hold in the Samurai Shodown series. It arrived 11 months after Samurai Shodown. The next entry was Samurai Shodown III in 1996. Its critic score of 65 is 5 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 at 90.
How it was received
Samurai Shodown III holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Samurai Shodown III launched on 15 November 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Rayman. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Rayman.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Samurai Shodown III yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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