From March 16, Port Royale 3 will be available for free until March 31 and Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse will be available for free until April 15, according to Xbox Wire.Warface: Breakout was released in 2020. It is a tactical first-person shooter and a spin-off of the free game Warface, which recently came to Nintendo Switch with cross-play coming in the future.
Metal Slug 3 is the classic shooting game released in arcades in 2000. It was ported to the original Xbox with additional game modes, but this is not the version available. The version available for free in March was released in 2008 on Xbox Live Arcade.
According to IGN analysis of the XBLA Metal Slug 3 port, the visuals have been improved over the original Xbox port, but the extra game modes have not been transferred. Worse, blood was also censored in this port. Blood can be restored by setting the language on the Xbox 360 to Japanese. It is not known if this trick works on Xbox One or Series X.
Another version of Metal Slug 3 was released in 2017 for the Xbox One, which allows players to choose between different versions of the game. Unfortunately, the 2008 version is the version that Xbox Wire links to in the Games with Gold ad.Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse is a double shooter game released in 2018. Players take control of mechs to end a llama apocalypse with the four-player cooperative mode. IGN Africa’s VALA analysis said the game has “a serious lack of variety, a poor pace of action and sufficient mild annoyances that result in major irritations.”
Finally, Port Royale 3 is a pirate simulator set in the 17th century Caribbean. The game preview by IGN said: “The relatively slow pace and simulation-based approach can keep action players at bay, but we were impressed by the number of different ways to make their mark on the many sandy beaches of Port Royale 3. “