Following the freemium model on other platforms, Gameloft has made its premier racing franchise Asphalt 8: Airborne free for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 in their respective app stores. Featuring a lot of premium cars and race tracks, the Asphalt 8 game is something we have repeatedly featured in our gaming reviews, as it serves as a decent benchmark for graphics performance. With a lot of nicely modeled tracks out of the box and a solid career mode, the popular game series continues its victory lap with Asphalt 8. Here’s a gameplay video on the Nokia Lumia 1520 –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8telNGFfRkI
The game is available for free on both the major Microsoft platforms, for which Gameloft is developing for. The Windows 8 version of the game has even better graphics and performance when compared with the Windows Phone. Here is a gameplay video of it being featured on the Dell venue 8 Pro Windows 8 tablet from earlier –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tfNf1iI_Qo
As you can see, the game runs quite well on both Windows Phone 8 as well as Windows 8. It used to cost 0.99$ before, but now there are no barriers for the full game, so go ahead and download it –