Asphalt Legends Unite Review - The Final Verdict

Asphalt 9: Legends has been around since 2018, first launching on mobiles and PC and garnering attention for its visual fidelity. It's received extensive support through the years, including console ports, but Unite is perhaps its biggest yet and a pseudo-rebrand of sorts.

Featuring improved visuals, a new track in Singapore, overhauled multiplayer modes, a new PvP mode called Team Pursuit and crossplay, Unite purportedly offers a lot for long-time fans. Unfortunately, the matchmaking in its "ranked" modes is subpar, while Team Pursuit is a poor imitation of Hot Pursuit from the NFS series.

Coupled with annoying progression systems, egregious monetization, horrendous rubberbanding and a repetitive Career Mode, Asphalt Legends Unite feels like a drag. Its arcade gameplay and visuals may prove enticing - plus it's free-to-play. However, the real meat of the experience is incredibly lacking when it's not actively trying to aggravate you.

[demonreturns]

This is the type of game you’d love as a 5-7 year old back in the day

[RileyHell]

We need a good free-to-play racing game. There's tons of ways to do it with fair monetization, these companies are just greedy as hell.

[Gacla]

I remember Asphalt used to be a good racing game..

[AllThingsInfamous]

This game is fun but’s it’s sadly ruined by aggressive micro transactions

[sossiko]

Collecting cards to get a car is the worst thing ever

[devlinorsomething]

watching someone play this game that doesn’t play this game as someone who plays this game is very painful

[Child_of_woe_]

cars are cool but at the end of the day it's just a mobile game and the races are waaaay too short to actually be fun and honestly I think a 4 is being very generous I'd give it 1.5 simply based on the nice cars and the nice graphics

[WeirdThingsGames]

Gameloft found their golden egg in asphalt! Used to love their N.O.V.A series 1 to 4, still holding out for a proper sequel thats just a story single player thing till now. Even loved their Dungeon hunter games 1 to 4, their modern combat games too 1 to 4, 😅 wow am starting to see a trend..And I really really loved Wild Blood, such an experience on a mobile phone, that made my days. But now....

[Dustparticle]

Pay to win garbage...don't waste your time.

[famingo]

Once the whales try out non-free racing games, they'll realize how much fun they could've had with multiple games with all cars unlocked for a fraction of money they spent to unlock one car in Asphalt

[TobiHamed]

The funny thing is asphalt players always complain but never stop playing the game, it's annoying to see

[TaiSai_]

Had my niece give it a try after the unite update. She was like, "Can I buy a car?"

Pure soul, I wish we could.

[MrHossambakr]

I'm playing This game for almost a year now and i can say this is an honest and precisely review.

[itsmaistro]

They still have the gas system on a console game? Idk about this I just downloaded it

[yoreni]

As a player who has been playing this game for almost 5 years now, I’ve come to know the ins and outs of this game

Whatever you do, as a new player don’t download this game, the progression system is really rigged and it will take you years just to be able to properly have fun or get actual decent cars
If you’re unable to get your hands on a good account pretty early on you won’t have any motivation to push further since racing slower cars just isn’t that fun

Especially since asphalt 9 became asphalt unite, everything has gone downhill
The amount of bugs in this game is insane, tens or even hundreds of bugs make it very unenjoyable or just unplayable
The optimisation is absolute shit and even tho the max graphics looks good, most top players play with lower graphics anyways because the effects are blinding

Pretty much the only stuff we do as higher end players is have fun in private races (with infinite fuel), try to push limits with shortcuts and world records or jst mess around in multiplayer and tle
This is not supposed to be the case since multiplayer is supposed to be rewarding to play but honestly, the milestone rewards are trash, the season ending rewards are also very underwhelming and the amount of toxic players is just not fun

Overal, trash game, don’t play it and don’t invest 5 years and thousands of hours in the game like me 😃

Edit: another thing is the fact that this game is so p2w, pretty much every recent special event is absolute dogshit
For some cars you need (and I’m not joking) hundreds or thousands euros/dollars just to unlock ONE car that’s not even that good (shoutout to the devel and lvn) just for Gameloft to nerf the shit out of the car later on or just give it away for basically free a year later

[HappyChappy]

I still play this but the grind feels impossible when u are f2p

[chillhour]

we are all desperate for a new good arcade racer

[chrisbanos]

The game plays itself fine, like milk
Soundtrack is fire also

[Ray-zins]

I don't know how to explain it but the game feels like its doing too much, I miss how sleek and sharp the Asphalt 9: Legends UI used to feel, everything felt like it had a place and it was just so well put together, this has gone far too cartoony if that makes sense

[mofkergt]

In an alternate world where asphalt 8 airborne wasnt ruined by greed and the 9th sequel is actually fun and enjoyable