Welcome one and all to the "All-Anna, All-the-time" edition of Friday Flash Games, where we'll spend some time thinking about things other than Anna Nicole Smith's recent death. You won't find anything else on any of the major TV news networks, but here is relief.

Every Friday I track down three (or more) games for you to play, all of which play in your browser, and all of which require the Adobe Flash Player. Thanks to the wonders of the Adobe Flash Player, all games work on both Windows and Mac OS X. Thanks to the wonder of game developers, I will warn you when games contain music or sound effects, in case you need to play without drawing attention to yourself.

This week I've got a trio of games that are more complex than usual, so I'm adding a bonus fourth game in case you'd rather save the others for a time when you can concentrate better. Yeah, that's it.

Hear ye, gladiators! Swords and Sandals II: Emperor's Reign is an impressive follow up to and worthy replacement for the original Swords and Sandals: Gladiator.

You must create a character, distributing nine skill points among strength, agility, attack, 'defence' (Australian!), vitality, charisma, stamina, and magicka. You can change how he looks and give him a name, and then it's time to fight your way out of prison and begin your quest. You start off with a certain amount of gold, and you can shop for armor, for weapons, for potions (from the church), or for spells. Since you're just starting off, you'll barely be able to afford any armor right away — it's time to fight!

Each fight you win earns you gold as well as more skill points to distribute. Each fight you lose... well, don't lose! If you choose a duel, you'll just lose gold, but tournament fights — which you have to 'level up' for — are to the death.

Once you've played a while and gotten addicted to the game, you'll find that this is a demo for the full-length game, which will cost you $20 (and is for Windows only).

There is music and sound which starts at the menu, but there is also a control at the bottom of the play window to turn it all off.

Rails Of War takes some of the same elements and reworks them. Your mission here is to equip a train to carry out missions despite enemy fire from tanks and gun emplacements, plus nasty bulldozers.