When comparing Need for Speed Most Wanted vs Asphalt 8: Airborne, the Slant community recommends Asphalt 8: Airborne for most people. In the question“What are the best Android games?” Asphalt 8: Airborne is ranked 1st while Need for Speed Most Wanted is ranked 28th. 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 Stunning graphics
The game has beautiful graphics and stunning visuals including reflections and light effects.
Pro Action filled experience
Police car chases, takedowns, roadblocks etc are much more fluid and adrenaline packed compared to many racing games on mobile.
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 Crashes on some devices
There have been several complaints from several reviewers on Google Play saying that the game doesn't work on their devices after the last upgrade. These devices include: Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4
Con The game provides no challenge
The game doesn't appear to be challenging to a lot of players due to the wide highways, minimal traffic and the elementary curves
Con Includes in-app purchases
Players are confronted with IAPs in the game for which they already payed $5.57.
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.