Asphalt 9: Legends

If you like cars.. This game is for you

Asphalt 9: Legends is an undoubtedly lavish affair, one which is rightly used as a benchmark for the latest mobile devices. It’s a genuine stunner, boasting next-level particle effects, lighting, and realistic weather. But what lies beneath that polished exterior is something I’ve always struggled to get on board with; an arcade racer that strips the genre to the bone, offering up a theme-park experience more skin to a tech demo than a fully-realised game.

In its best moments, you can expect the same gleeful sense of speed and violent carnage as the earlier Burnouts, albeit with a much-reduced sense of danger. Crashing headfirst into an oncoming bus isn’t the recipe for disaster you might expect; instead registering only as the slightest inconvenience. Part of this is down to non-racer vehicles functioning like props on a set as opposed to genuine hazards.

Even when you do wrap your porsche around the pretty scenery, the worst you can expect is to lose your lead. And this is part of a larger problem: The game is in such a rush to keep you going, to push you rapidly to the finish line, to serve up your latest reward, that it can feel like your input isn’t wholly required, and that the racing itself is an afterthought. Even when using the manual control scheme, there’s a lack of complexity to the core driving experience that limits its long-term appeal.



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