The new influx of Windows 8 players should breathe new life into the phone game and the existing phone users provide a player base for new tablet and PC gamers to race with. Any players can join any matchmaking game, with no differentiation between platforms. The real treat with Asphalt 7’s multiplayer is that both Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 players can race against each other! You needn’t do anything special. And sadly, this version lacks any form of chat, just like the phone game. Car upgrades can’t be toggled off by the host however, meaning high level players have a significant advantage over low level players. You can join or host a game for up to six online racers, selecting the race type, track, and tier of cars. This version’s multiplayer performs very well, with only the occasional dropped connection to mar the experience. Creating a Gameloft account isn’t much work though, and most Windows Phone 8 gamers probably already have one anyway.
Subsequent games like UNO & Friends have switched over to Xbox Live, but Asphalt 7 still relies on Gameloft Live. As far as we know, Microsoft has never provided the libraries needed for online multiplayer on phone or tablet, leaving the work completely up to developers.Īs such, the phone version of Asphalt 7 used Gameloft’s online service Gameloft Live for its multiplayer instead of Xbox Live. Crossing the platforms in multiplayerĪsphalt 7 was the first Windows Phone 8 game with true real-time online multiplayer, and now we can say the same about Windows 8 as well. Until we do more testing though, it might be safer to assume the transfer is a one-way operation.
It would be great if we could jump back and forth between both platforms at will. The phone game is excellent but awfully buggy that way. The only question is: will progress from the Windows 8 game transfer back to Windows Phone as well? Unfortunately, on the phone I’ve hit that bug in which the game crashes after the title screen, so I can’t test it. But slightly old save or not, it still saved me hours and hours of time in the Windows 8 game. Actually, the save recovered from the cloud was only on tier 11 of the campaign as opposed to my actual phone status of tier 13. The cloud save restored my old career progress, level, money, and cars appeared on my Windows 8 system. I didn’t even know it used cloud saving! Users can choose to download the existing cloud save or start with fresh data. Imagine my surprise when I signed into Xbox Live in-game and it informed me that I already had save data on the cloud. When I first downloaded and started playing Asphalt 7 on Windows 8, I figured I would need to take on the massive career mode all over again.
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