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Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: May 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is the worst game I ever played because when you are turning it is so hard to turn. Don't waste your money like I did.
I MEAN DON'T BUY IT.

all around pointless

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Now before you start screaming at me, I like racing games. But this one was terrible. 10 levels and 25 cars, not very good if you ask me. Now I wasn't expecting a excellent game that would knock my socks off, but come on. the controls were clunky and the limited variation in the soundtrack didn't help much. You need about 7 cars to beat the game, and the fact that there's turbo completely messes up the point of racing games that aren't destruction derbies. This was would have been better if once you got a lamborghini you weren't home free with the game. The fact that there are real cars doesn't do a darn thing if you have turbo which can make you go over 200 MPH without hardly trying, even in a hummer. Now I'm not saying "GO BUY RIDGE RACERS!!!" but seriously this game isn't really all it's supposedly worth. Here is a rating on a scale of one to ten

Sound---2/10
The fact that you could use some second hand music program on the computer to make the music is pretty lame, the SFX are basicly what a three year old would do to make a car noise and some cars honking at you that sound like dying water-buffalos.

Graphics---2/10
Seriously, the graphics are what you would expect from a game for the SNES {super nintendo entertainment system} and oncoming traffic looks like a drawing that a toddler could do.

Gameplay---2/10
The camera angles aren't bad but the controls are terrible. you use the B button to accelerate and the A button to brake. not to mention the fact that when you fly off the road into some restaurant or something like that, nothing really happens. you just slow down for something like a tenth of a second. Then you just go on going 200 MPH in a Hummer.

Difficulty---1/10
This game takes five minutes to learn, and 2 hours to beat. Pretty easy.

Multiplayer--1/10
Not very fun for multiplayer. Some games have worse, but this is still "wanting to bash your head in with a marsupial" boring.

Overall---1/10
I think this is the worst arcade racing game I've ever played and I've been playing games for 7 years.

Afterthoughts
For people who like this game think what you want, I can't force you to hate this game, but seriously I think if you want a portable racing game you would be better off forgetting that urge and getting a stationary console racing game- I would suggest Forza Motor Sport for Xbox or Gran Turismo 4 for the PS2.

Difficult to control

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The graphics in this game are fine... pretty advanced for a handheld. The cars look great, the tracks are interesting. I don't love the controls though, I find it difficult to really get the car moving around corners... the placement of the controls makes it difficult to move back and forth between the brakes & gas, and some of the camera movement is disorienting, confusing, and makes it difficult to tell when obsticles are coming up. I'm constantly nailing other cars, and have difficulty moving up through the ranks. I normally LOVE racing games, and I'm normally pretty good at them. This game is difficult, though... Not fun difficult. Irritating difficult.

I would not buy this game again, I'm sure there will be much better racing games available in the near future.

Smooth 3D graphics marred by annoying flaws

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 26 / 27
Date: December 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The first racing game available for the Nintendo DS, Asphalt: Urban GT is a fun arcade-style racing game that's unfortunately marred by some really annoying flaws.

Detailed review follows quick summary.

Pros:
+ console-like 3D graphics
+ great framerate
+ lots of high-speed racing fun
+ nice selection of cities
+ good replay value

Cons:
- graphics way too dark
- graphics too complex for DS's small screen
- does not remember customized controls
- no reverse, no stick shift
- tough CPU opponents

Asphalt: Urban GT (AUGT for short) puts you behind the wheel of one of 25 cars ranging from Lamborghini to Nissan to VW New Beetle, from coupes to muscle cars to 4x4 SUVs. You can race in one of several cities including Miami, Chenobyl, New York, Hong Kong, and more. While breaking no new grounds, AUGT puts together elements from some of the most successful racing games on the PS2 and Xbox; you'll recognize Need for Speed, Test Drive, Burnout, and maybe others in this game. Overall, the game does an admirable job implementing the best features of the other games which results in a potentially fun gaming experience.

Being an arcade racer, AUGT makes it easy to get into the action quickly. You can choose from traditional races or time attacks or cop chases (sounds familiar?). Like other racing games, you can pick the career mode (called evolution here) and earn cash to unlock cars. The audio takes advantage of the DS's stereo capabilities and you can be your own DJ, choosing from a small number of music tracks.

The graphics on the game is pretty good, reminding me of racing games on the original PS. The framerate is awesome: even when you use boost to get into high speed racing, the framerate never slows down. The smooth graphics makes the game very playable (unlike the Nokia Ngage version of the same game).

Unfortuantely, the graphics tends to be too dark. Mind you, the DS's screens, albeit backlit, are not very bright unless you are in the dark (nothing unfamiliar to GBA SP users). AUGT can be very hard to see, especially when the screen gets crowded with other vehicles. The dark graphics also means background elements like buildings, obstacles and other cars would blend together, making it difficult to, say, recognize upcoming corners. (In all fairness, the Rallisport Challenge-like direction arrow hints help a little.) I have shown the game to my gamer buddies and all had the same reaction: awesome framerate and background graphics, but lousy brightness. Plus, we all felt the DS's screens are too small for the complexity of the game's graphics. (The top screen is used for racing, the bottom shows course map and stats.)

Another major annoyance is while you can customize the controls -- the default is unconventional so you likely need to change them -- the game does NOT save your configuration! Every time you power off the DS, your controls preference is lost, and next time you'll have to set them again. This is just plain stupid.

One more thing that happens occasionally but really pisses me off is when you run into a stalled vehicle in the road, you are pretty much stuck as you can't back out of the jam (there's no reverse in this game, as there is no gear shift, either). At that point you'll have to restart the race or just quit.

Oh, another thing I don't understand why, like most racing games, it's so hard to beat your CPU opponents, even at the lowest difficulty level. I have not been able to finish first, no matter how hard I try.

In short, I'm rather disappointed that while AUGT could have been a really fun game to play, its dark graphics, inability to save customized controls and lack of new play modes put it in the so-so, can-miss category. Unless you are a hardcore racer like me, you should probably spend your $30 on another DS game.

Asphalt is pretty good - would actually say 3.5 stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First game I bought for the ds. It doesn't use the touch screen though. The game is basically a mini-gran turismo. Very much reminded me of gt2 for the original playstation, which is a good thing.

The graphics are good, the controls were easy, and there is reverse (i don't know what that guy was talking about).

What brings this game down from 5 stars is that it could have been more. More tracks, more cars, more tunability, more unique characteristics between cars (especially sound), and the replay value isn't great.

Overall if you want a solid race title for your ds, it's pretty good for only $30.

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This Game is a great racing game.You can use nitro boosts to help u speed up during races.The car designs are awsome which include the hummer h2,corvette,lambohrgini diablo,and more.But need for speed underground 2 will probably a better racing game.So if you are patient wait to get need for speed underground 2 which is coming out in a month or two.But if your impatient and cant wait a month get this game or if your a racing fanatic get both.Hope this was helpful.Blue.

Great game, difficult at first

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Asphalt is a great game with a ton of championships in different types of cars. You can repeat championships and sell the cars you win just like in all the GT games. The controls are horrible, so here is my suggestion - change them to XBOX style, R is gas, L is brake. this is way easier. Then you can customize the other buttons (turbo, horn, chng view, look back) to your liking. After changing this, the game is way easier, at least for me. Just remember that when you are constantly squeezing the R and L triggers, it may ache if you play for more than a few hour. Overall the game is really fun. The variety of cars and the customization is good. Graphics are great. After a long time of playing it is possible to get stuck (like when you reach the series where none of the 3 available cars can be customized) but that's not until after you are no longer 'hooked' on the concept of beating it.

P.S. Remember-this is a Nintendo, if you change the controls, you will have to change the controls every time you turn on the DS to play Asphalt.

Hope this helps those people complaining about controls.

an almost perfect racing game for the ds`

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If your reading this, you may be wondering if you should buy this game. If not then go do something else buddy.

well the good things about this game i'm gonna list below.

1. There are a good variety of tracks, and they have different difficulty for each one.(just not a listed difficulty)

2. There is a good variety of cars, and if you like to customize, Nintendo did a good job on this. You can change the color of the cars, but if you change the body... you can't change the color again unless you change the body again.

3. If your into games like burnout and need for speed etc. Then this is a good game for you. I wouldn't say that this game is as good as those, but come on, its on the ds, and the DS is a handheld not a stand alone console. They did do a good job with the boosts.

4. Multiplayer. There is a good multiplayer part to this game, its fastpaced and you can have more than one person to go against.

now i'll write the bad things about this game... there aren't that many as you may have guessed by my game rating.

1. the cars... for some reason, the wheels on every car don't spin. They don't spin at all, how do i know this you may ask... that is because you turn on racing games. You end up seeing the side of the cars. The wheels move to show what direction your going in, but they don't spin.

2. Multiplayer. There happens to only be multicard play for this game. Which if you own a ds and have played with others for sure know that. Another bad part about the multiplayer is, that you can only use the cars that you have earned in the arcade mode. Oh by the way to get the cars beat the first thing... i don't remember its name but there are more than one race in each. and a car class.

3. the speed. One problem if you actually look at how fast your going... is that the most expensive car lamborgini marcielgo something isn't even the fastest car. its some car thats like half the price when its fully upgraded...

well i just hope that you thought that this review was a good one.

Good, But...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was great. The graphics were great and the gameplay is fun and addicting. However, Need For Speed Underground 2 is coming to the USA April 19. The graphics are better, there are better customizing options and also more tracks. I have the Japanese version and it is longer, harder and much better. However if you really like racing games (like me), then you might want to get both. Asphalt Urban GT is like a midnight club, and Need For Speed Underground 2 is similar to the console versions released this year. Also, Mario Kart comes out in November, but that is not like a real racing game. I will get that too. If you only want one REAL racing game, than I suggest waiting for Underground. Neither play multiplayer with one card but Mario Kart will, just with limited courses and other options.

N/A

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Great game it includes all those cars for racing and even some unlockables i personally think it better then most of the racing games introduced to the ds yet. So many cars and tracks and the graphics arent too shabby either. go ahead give it a try.

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