Asphalt 8: Airborne in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ All great games still have issues...

When I saw ads for this game, I really wanted to try it out, so I downloaded it and was instantly impressed. The beautiful graphics and UI just blew me away! The entertainment this game brings will make play it for hours at a time. However, all great games aren’t perfect. It is very hard to progress in this game, as cars either cost too much, or the blueprints for them are too rare. Finding 40 blueprints for a single car really just isn’t worth it, so can this maybe be nerfed GameLoft? Also, bugs... though they can be hard to find, they really can annoy someone after a while. For example, when I am racing online, the momentary invincibility after a wreck will sometimes stay on other racers, making it impossible to knock them down. Another example, in multiplayer, when the cars start, some of the other user’s cars wont move, grinding you to a sudden halt, but then they teleport forwards, putting you in nearly dead last. One more bug that ticks me off, where you respawn after wrecking. One time on the map “London Eye” I was knocked down in midair during a jump over a river. I kept respawning right in front of the ramp and couldn’t build up enough speed to make the jump, making an endless loop of me crashing. Though these bugs tick me off, I still love the game, and will keep playing it for a long time, despite the minor and sometimes major annoyances that pop up. Keep up the good work GameLoft!

★★★★★ Price Changes

I would like to start by saying I enjoy playing this game a lot. This is one of my favorite games by far. I’ve recently re-downloaded the game, and I have seen many car classifications change, which is fine by me. My question is, why did some cars go up in price? I remember when some were around 300k-400k coins, and now they’re over a million! I just don’t quite understand that. Also, why are all the S-tier vehicles only purchasable by tokens and fusion coins? I would like to have the option to purchase with coins. Lastly, why did the “Ultimate” feature have to put on some cars? I know that this feature has been in the game for a while now. In my opinion, that’s a very dumb feature, because I remember working very hard to buy the Koenigsegg Agera R, my favorite car, and almost max it out completely. Then, after an update, I see that “Ultimate” forms of cars were added. This included the Agera R, and I was not pleased. The car I worked hard to improve didn’t have that great of stats anymore! If I’m the only one who feels this way about the “Ultimate” cars, then that’s ok. I would just prefer there to be no “Ultimate” cars. If this change could be made down the road, I would be very happy. All in all though, thank you for making a great game! It has brought much joy to my gaming life.

★★★★★ Great, but too expensive.

I absolutely love this game. It’s super fun and addictive and I’ve been playing for a long time. The thing is, I only have a couple cars and I can’t upgrade things because it’s all way too expensive. It takes too many credits and it’s like the game is forcing your hand into making purchases. I would like to have a chance to get at least 1 car in each class without spending that much. I can’t participate in races because my rank is too low, and races don’t give enough money so I can’t upgrade. I like a good challenge. But this is too challenging, because over all of my years, I still only have A and C class cars. Even R&D events are hard because you have to keep upgrading and there’s too many races to do because I never have enough time. I like the festival format better, with the challenges. I am almost at level 8 and about to finally have an s class car. The problem with that is besides multiplayer, I can’t use it in career, because I am only in season 4. And I can’t do any of the C class races in season 4 because my rank is too low, and I only have 1 C class car. So if possible, please reduce prices, scrap R&D events, make races give more money, and maybe at the beginning of the game, give the player 1 car in every class, so at least they can play in events.

★★★★★ New play is Weak, same old same old!

Great game play, awesome graphics. I’m ok with the paying and have played for years and amassed a great garage with not paying, so I understand that to get more ultra-Premium rides, one should pay, that’s all good. I have noticed that there has not been any Season updates in forever, finished all I could basically a few years ago and it’s still the same as it was then (a few new things piped up last year or so, but not much). Also events changed from having rather cool events that changed every few days (with that one with the boost and shooting, that was really awesome!!), but now it’s only three events and they are the basically the same every time featuring a different car...gets boring. Also when adding the new purple coins and taking away the cards or something changed there that just made it more confusing when upgrading cars. Overall the game play is nothing new and course are nothing new, and unless I spend a good amount of cash, no new cars...again I’d be more inclined to spend money on premium cars if there was some fun exciting and new game play to play with them on, but I’m tired of the same old stuff. That’s for the app though, would like to get back to playing daily and spending money but it’s just same old same old now.

★★★★★ I’m a bit disappointed…

I have been playing this game for many years, and when I say many years, I mean I’ve been playing ever since 2014, so trust me when I say I’ve been apart of this game for awhile now. I’ve been able to see how asphalt has drastically changed over these years and when I say “drastically” I’m not exaggerating when I say this, it’s because I no longer recognize this app. I am fine with little changes since this app is getting older and there needs to be some sort of a improvement, however I longer recognize this app. Over the years I have noticed that this game has become a pay-to-win game, you’re literally forced to spend money in the game in order to have some sort of success. It’s become very hard earning tokens/credits and trying to buy way over priced cars, which just makes it un-fun. The memories I have of the game in its earliest years will never leave me, and that’s because it was that unique and lovable, now I look at the game and I don’t feel those feelings any longer. And no, the world does not revolve around me and my feelings of the game, but I am sure others out there feel the same way I do. I hope the game will maybe one day be somewhat like it was back then. I just want that original uniqueness back. Thank you for reading.

★★★★★ Forces you to use real cash to get somewhere in the game

Gotta be real, loved this game at first, until I realize the ratio of winning credits/receiving tokens to the amount I’m required to spend to really get anywhere and/or buy the cars I need. I won’t ever spend money on iAPs when the app itself is free, or at least make it more reasonable so I’ll just keep replaying the same races 100s of times 😜. Even the extra nitrous, extra credits for one day, performance upgrades right before your race starts is way too expensive. You guys really need to chill out and stop being money hoggers. Also, with this newest update, how does AI manage to catch up to you without using nitrous, pass you, and maintain the lead when you yourself have a maxed out car and on nitrous? That to me makes no sense at all. It’s as if you guys improved the ‘physics’ and added a little magic to AI, to make us work for the impossible and then force us buy iAPs when that shouldn’t even be possible IRL. I’ve also had a multiple times where AI purposely crash into the wall, then the car bounces off and flies toward the opposite way, and you’ve got no chance to avoid it and you end up crashing too. Not only do they crash, when you attempt to knock them out during stronger NOS, they somehow resist, then all of a sudden turn and you both end up crashing on the sidewall with no chance of you recovering. That was never the case before the update. Come on guys, be realistic.

★★★★★ Amazing a few things tho

Okay first of all this game is the very best!! I hate how much some of the cars cost. You’d have to play for days to get a class C and up car. It took me about a few weeks of play to get the Mercedes Benz Biome which I kind of regret. One problem I have is Class B cars and up tend to suddenly spin out and crash. Which frustrates me because sometimes it happens when I’m @ a good spot but then it just suddenly spins out and I go down to like 24th place. It’s happened with my Mercedes Benz Biome, and Bugatti Centodieci. So about the Mercedes Benz Biome and me regretting it a little bit. It has next to zero drifting capability. So don’t play sector 8 with the Mercedes Benz Biome. You have to drift a lot in that one It’s spun out on me about 3 times on the first like 5 races I played with it. I still love the game don’t waste your money on paint jobs tho. The cheapest on on a class D car is like 18,000 game credits. UPDATE I love the new update that came just barely. It’s awesome! Could you please In the next update add more tracks. Because Wright now all the tracks are getting a little old and I think it’s time you’ve added more tracks.