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Asphalt 8: Airborne
Gameloft's arcade racer with over 450 licensed cars and bikes, 50-plus tracks and 12-player online races.
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- Developer
- Gameloft
- Score
- 4.7
- Downloads
- 100K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Genre
- Sports
- Price
- Free
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About this game
Gameloft's Asphalt 8 is an arcade racer in which the cars spend nearly as much time airborne as on the road, hence the subtitle. The garage holds more than 450 licensed vehicles, bikes included, from makers such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Bugatti, Ducati, Audi, Ford and Chevrolet, racing across over 50 tracks. Single-player content is deep: more than 400 Career events, another 1,500 Car Mastery challenges and six game modes. Online, real-time multiplayer supports up to 12 racers, and friends can be challenged to ghost races. Cars can be dressed up with more than 2,300 decals, and there's a separate Racer Avatar with clothing and accessories to customize. Time-Limited Events and Racing Passes add rotating rewards. Progress syncs between macOS and iOS, so a race started on a Mac can be carried on from an iPhone. The game is free but includes in-app purchases for virtual items and may show third-party ads.
Asphalt 8: Airborne: the full guide
What the game is
Gameloft's long-running arcade racer takes its subtitle literally: the cars leave the ground about as often as they touch it. Asphalt 8 fields a garage of over 450 licensed cars and bikes, with Ferrari, McLaren, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Audi, Ducati, Ford and Chevrolet all represented, across more than 50 tracks.
The single-player side is enormous: over 400 Career events, another 1,500 Mastery challenges for individual cars, and six modes. Online, up to 12 racers compete in real time, and you can set ghost races against friends. There are 2,300-plus decals, a customisable Racer Avatar, and progress syncs between iOS and macOS.
How a session plays
A race is two or three minutes of nitro, ramps and barrel rolls. You pick a car, pick an event, and drive flat out through a track built with jumps and shortcuts, chaining stunts to refill boost. Finishing well earns credits and stars toward the next car or upgrade.
With 400 Career events and 1,500 Mastery challenges, the campaign alone can absorb months of commutes. Multiplayer slots in beside it: 12-player real-time races, ghost challenges against friends, Time-Limited Events and Racing Passes with rotating rewards. Starting a race on a Mac and continuing on a phone works thanks to cross-device progress sync.
Why people look for it
Few mobile racers combine a licensed garage of this size with arcade handling that forgives mistakes, and that pairing is what people search for. The brand is well known from years on the store, the car list reads like a poster collection, and the 12-player online mode gives it legs after the career is done. The Mac sync is a smaller draw for Apple households.
Look and feel
Expect glossy car models, exotic locations and a lot of airtime in the five screenshots, since spectacle is the whole pitch. The Sports category tag understates it; this is a stunt racer. Menus will be dense, with hundreds of cars to browse, decal editors and an avatar wardrobe, so the garage side of the interface is considerably busier than the racing itself.
