That's another reason why Asphalt 8 looks better on a smaller display: we love Real Racing 3 on a 10-inch tablet where it's really immersive and you get every detail out of the graphics. If you want to buy yourself a Koenigsegg Agera R you'll be parting with 375,000 credits, which will take a lot of racing to earn, or about £50 of your real money. It's more likely you'll opt for the £1.49 boost for 6900 credits, just so you can get that elusive car you want. This isn't really optional: if you want to be competitive, you'll need to spec-up your car or be left in the dust and you'll need particular types of car to compete in particular races.Īs is typical these days there's an in-app payment option, where you can buy credits for cash, running all the way up to £69.99 for 690,000 credits. Credit where credit's dueĪsphalt 8: Airborne uses a credits system that will allow you to buy new cars and upgrade those you already have. There are other connected elements such as saving a 'ghost' of your best run to race against later, or for friends to race against, but in most cases you can race in career mode without being connected.

You'll need to be connected to the internet if you want to take part in multiplayer racing, whereas the career is fine offline as you'd expect.

Still, you'll soon find your way into the type of races you want.

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