asphalt 9 legends nintendo switch release time

Much like other mobile games with a premium currency, it’s the usual routine here: £1.99 for a negligible 40 tokens (which you can’t really do much with) to a buttock-clenching £99. Upgrades are bought through credits, which are earned through normal racing, but of course, if you run out of credits you can always top them up with tokens, which can be bought with real money. Before each race you’ll be given a recommended rank, which essentially tells you how powerful the rest of the cars in the race are going to be, so it’s generally in your best interests to make sure you have at least one car in your garage that can meet that recommendation. Or, of course, you could just pay real money to speed the process up.Īs you progress there’s a constant urge to upgrade: your car will only be powerful enough for the first couple of events, but can be upgraded to increase its ‘rank’ (which is a score defining how powerful it is). As you progress through this mode, taking on the 71 separate themed events – each of which can sometimes have up to 10 individual races – the aim is to slowly build a collection of cars by collecting the blueprints that are awarded to you after each race. Given that there’s still no sign of a new Ridge Racer game from Bandai Namco, Asphalt 9 could be the best alternative available for fans of arcade-style racing, but given that its entire structure is still based around mobile gaming – and all the nonsense that comes with that – it sometimes feels like it’s trying its best to annoy you.Īsphalt 9: Legends is free-to-start, gifting you a single car and starting you off on the extremely lengthy Career mode. And now it’s back.Īsphalt 9: Legends is a Switch port of the latest game in the series, which was released on mobile platforms back in July. Other than a brief return for the launch of the 3DS with Asphalt 3D, the series has mainly been associated with mobile gaming for well more than a decade now. It launched on the DS in 2004 as Asphalt: Urban GT, got a sequel and then headed off to (what was then) the new and exciting world of mobile gaming, leaving Nintendo behind.

The Asphalt series actually started off on Nintendo, many moons ago.

Asphalt 9 legends nintendo switch release time