Asphalt Nitro

Asphalt Nitro is a racing video game developed and published by Gameloft as part of the Asphalt series. It is a spinoff of the main series, based on Asphalt 8: Airborne, and is available only on Android devices, as well as a downgraded Java version.

Why It Sucks
NOTE: Many of these problems are carried over from Asphalt 8: Airborne.
 * 1) While not as grind heavy as Asphalt 8: Airborne, Asphalt Nitro is still grind heavy.
 * 2) Rather rampant microtransactions. First, almost every car can be bought with in-game money, but the W Motors Lykan HyperSport and McLaren F1 XP-5 can be bought with real money only. Then, there is the hard currency known as tokens, which various cars must be purchased with.
 * 3) * The F1 comes with an innate Absolute Armor booster activated, which makes it completely indestructible. To even achieve the same effect for your cars, you have to buy the Absolute Armor booster for 225 tokens, but it only lasts 1 hour. Worst of all, the F1 requires US$99.99 to be bought via the Luxury Pack!
 * 4) Adding insult to injury, this game introduced the VIP System, which rewards players for spending their real money on microtransactions in the game! What makes matters worse is that Asphalt 8: Airborne eventually got this same VIP System in the summer of 2016, but even bigger and even worse, due to Vivendi’s acquisition of Gameloft.
 * 5) * Your cars' upgrades are limited unless you pay real money to advance through the VIP System.
 * 6) * To get the Lykan HyperSport, you actually have to be VIP Level 4 to unlock it and then pay real money to actually get the car.
 * 7) False advertising: this game is advertised on the Google Play as taking up only 25 MB (later changed to 35 MB), but once the game is actually installed, it eats up more than 9 times that amount! (+315 MB)
 * 8) Some of the cars in the game are not accurately represented performance-wise and (to a limited extent) sound-wise, which can unnecessarily push its arcade game feel past reasonable extremes:
 * 9) * McLaren F1 XP-5, which has a higher performance rank (S1,497 / 1,743) than the F1's successor, the P1 (S1,470 / 1,698); obviously, this does not make sense as the P1 outperforms the F1 in all aspects in real life, including unrestricted top speed.
 * 10) * Ferrari 330 P4, a 1967 sports prototype race car that would literally get smoked by modern day GT4 race cars, although in the game, it not only has a V8 engine sound despite having a V12, but it also appears in Class S (S1,412 / 1,724), placed inbetween the Lykan HyperSport (S1,518 / 1,723) and McLaren F1 (S1,497 / 1,743).
 * 11) * Lamborghini V12 engine notes on cars that actually have V8 or V10 engines, like the Koenigsegg One:1 and Lamborghini Sesto Elemento.
 * 12) Poor class-based car pricing, with the Lamborghini Veneno being cheaper than its base model, the Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4.
 * 13) The upgrades system is again unbalanced, but worse, Pro Kit Cards obtained from Pro Kit Boxes are required for every upgrade!
 * 14) Broken physics. Flat spins fail once you land, and if you activate the nitro right before exiting a drift, you experience the dreaded "no drift" bug, which Airborne actually fixed back in December 2015.
 * 15) The career mode literally requires you to pay real money to even advance through it, as ALL of the cars in the game must be obtained for completion, IAP-only and token-only cars included.
 * 16) Multiplayer does not actually race you against real people, but instead AI racers based on real people, blatantly copying from the Drivatars of the Forza series.
 * 17) Even more limited customization than in Airborne, as no decals can be applied to any car.
 * 18) Graphical downgrade. The damage model is also affected to the point of cars never losing any parts at all.
 * 19) Knockdown camera can never be disabled, which can become annoying during Knockdown races.
 * 20) Infected mode. As it's exactly identical to the one in Asphalt 8: Airborne, it is obviously poorly executed, with losing the virus resulting in an automatic wreck and loss of nitro.
 * 21) Very little amount of tracks, all of them being based on Airborne 's tracks:
 * 22) * Nevada (based on London)
 * 23) * Alps (based on Azure Coast/Monaco)
 * 24) * Brazil (based on French Guiana)
 * 25) * China (based on Alps)
 * 26) * Iceland (based on Nevada)
 * 27) * Italy (based on Venice)
 * 28) Fake Speed : this is a commonly recurring instance where a car in the game has its displayed speed different from its actual speed, thus misleading users. There are 12 cars in the game that are guilty of this, with two of them being Class A cars.
 * 29) * It doesn't help that the game does not display speed figures with one decimal place, which only serves to hurt even more. However, car ranks are calculated in the exact same manner as in Airborne.
 * 30) Incorrect naming for cars: the McLaren F1 XP-5 in the game has no "XP-5" in its in-game name, while the 9FF GT9 VMAX is wrongly named "9FF GT9-R".
 * 31) As usual, Gameloft does little to nothing to help customers and players of this game, thus making Customer Care useless.
 * 32) Forget about being able to transfer all your progress and data from one device to another through the cloud unless you use Facebook integration.
 * 33) Despite being on Android, its graphics are not even adjustable, which can wreak havoc on certain devices.
 * 34) As with other Asphalt spinoffs, this game was short lived, with updates ceasing after 2016, at least one year after its release.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Unlike Asphalt 8: Airborne, all tracks can be played in solo race mode.
 * 2) This game features a sizable amount of exotic cars, albeit not as much as its graphically improved counterpart.
 * 3) Multiplayer actually allows you to select who you want to race against rather than just having your competitors randomly determined.
 * 4) This game features the return of a police-based game mode, called "Catch", which Asphalt 8: Airborne lacked.
 * 5) * It also features a time attack mode called "Escape", which Nitro 's base counterpart modified into a simpler mode called "Time Attack".
 * 6) Despite the graphical downgrade, Nitro still features acceptably decent graphics.
 * 7) For RUF fans, this is the last Asphalt game where RUF cars are still normally available despite Electronic Arts permanently losing their exclusive grasp on the Porsche license in December 2016.
 * 8) This game does not feature as much required waiting as Airborne, partly due to the ability to stack Fuel points past the normal maximum of 10.
 * 9) The soundtrack is awesome, despite only having 2 race songs, like the rest of the series, especially the main menu theme. Just have a listen to it here.

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