When comparing Asphalt 7: Heat vs Asphalt 8: Airborne, the Slant community recommends Asphalt 8: Airborne for most people. In the question“What are the best racing games for Android?” Asphalt 8: Airborne is ranked 1st while Asphalt 7: Heat is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Asphalt 8: Airborne is:
Asphalt 8: Airborne has built in HID gamepad support.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Beautiful graphics
Pro Good variety of events and cars
There are 60 unlockable cars, 150 different events and 15 different racetracks.
Pro HID gamepad support
Asphalt 8: Airborne has built in HID gamepad support.
Pro Manual graphics settings
Asphalt 8: Airborne has built in graphics settings that can be set in game allowing one to set what is best for their device depending on how powerful it is.
Pro Beautiful graphics
Often used to benchmark phones, this game has pretty amazing graphics, from particle systems to filters, the eye candy is pretty decent.
Pro MOGA controller support
Asphalt 8: Airborne has built in MOGA controller support.
Pro SHIELD games support
Asphalt 8: Airborne has built in SHIELD support.
Cons
Con Wi-Fi is required to launch the game
Players can't access the game if they are offline. A Wi-Fi network is required.
Con Almost identical to previous Asphalt games
Asphalt 7 isn't much different than the previous versions of Asphalt.
Con Pacing is set to push players to spend money on in app purchases
The way that Asphalt 8: Airborne progresses is clearly to push players into spending real money to advance in the game, making the game pay to play.