Visually, Asphalt has decent car models, but suffers from choppy performance, lots of pop-in, laughable animations, and tire marks that float above the road in 3D
Asphalt 3D
Gameloft · Mar 27, 2011
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Asphalt™ 3D is racing as you’ve never experienced before! Full stereoscopic 3D graphics and authentically-modeled licensed supercars make this the most realistic, immersive racing experience yet. In Asphalt 3D, you’ll power over 40 high-performance vehicles and race through 17 exotic locations in both career and multiplayer modes. Experience surging down the road as you swerve to avoid oncoming traffic in full 3D. Uncover new racing circuits and vehicles, customize your hot rod, and play against up to 6 friends using the Local Play feature of the Nintendo 3DS™ system. Enable StreetPass by sending and receiving game data to see how you compare with your friends and just about everyone else who plays the game. Race against the viral ghost of top-ranked players to reach the top of the charts and earn in-game cash.
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6.3
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- Asphalt 3D shouldn’t be purely dismissed. Its Career mode, offering perhaps more depth than its launch competitor, is a blast to play through, especially with the variety of game types that continually differentiate your experience with varying levels of success. Not necessarily the strongest of the launch line-up, but certainly one that has plenty of content to keep you busy for a long while.
- Offering police pursuit races, takedown-focused bouts, and several other modes doesn’t help Asphalt 3D’s cause in the least. It’s a buggy mess, and the controls are awful enough to make it a chore even when the game is functioning correctly. With Ridge Racer also available at launch, there’s no reason whatsoever to play this joke.
- 5.0Asphalt 3D’s flaws are mostly minor but there are too many to ignore, and it doesn’t have enough of its own personality to make amends. Its twitchy handling does it no favours – half the fun of powersliding is wrestling control back from your car, but here the cars all bounce back to a central position as if spring-loaded. If you’re after a launch racer, steer towards Ridge Racer instead.
- 3.0On an iPhone, Asphalt's a cheery arcade racer that just about justifies shelling out the same amount as a couple of cups of coffee on. When its blown up for a dedicated gaming machine its imperfections are enlarged and all that Asphalt 3D really introduces is a framerate that can turn this into one particularly ugly slideshow. Truly horrible.
- 4.0Launch titles are often rushed and not representative of what the console can really do, but Asphalt is poor even by these lowered standards. Of all the early 3DS games I've played, this one is a dead cert to be filling bargain bins in a few weeks.
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