Kevin C. Wong

Asphalt 8: Airborne+ (2021) [+]

Asphalt 8: Airborne+ is a re-made version of the 2013 game bur for Apple Arcade. Previously I gave the game 4 of 5 stars as it was a pretty good racing game. As far as I can tell this version's game play is the same as previous. I think there are more tracks and cars and maybe it adds Mastery (each car has 15 mastery races), Gauntlet (pit your best five cars to get a best time then try to beat other people's best times), or World Series (3+ vs mode) modes (and a Motorcycle Blitz mode which I didn't try).

The racing is much better with a controller which I may not have had in 2013. The cars for the most part are barely different from each other -- I'm assuming acceleration, top speed, handling but you will have cars that seem to be the same or barely different.

When I first tries to play this version I bought cars willy nilly and got confused since it's hard to keep track of which car I had upgrades and with a long list of cars it's hard to find the right car. I reset the game and this time didn't buy any cars since the game gives you a new car every five or so Career mode races. Those car I improved and it was a funner experience for me.

In the end it's still quite a fun racing game and surprisingly performs well on my 2017 iPad Pro.