YMMV / Asphalt

• Porting Disaster: Asphalt 6: Adrenaline was ported to handheld consoles twice, and both ports were subpar.
  • Asphalt 3D for the Nintendo 3DS has shoddy visuals, terrible framerate issues even without 3D enabled, Artificial Stupidity from both rival racers and the police, tons of bugs, and the in-game announcer refers to the KTM X-Bow as "Ex-bow" when it's supposed to be pronounced "Cross-bow".
  • Asphalt Injection for the Play Station Vita has better graphics than 3D and less bugs overall, but still suffers from Artificial Stupidity and terrible collision detection, and motorcycles have been omitted from the vehicle lineup
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • The Cop Chase mode in the mobile phone versions of Asphalt Urban GT 2 and in Asphalt 4, where for whatever reason the designers decided to have players go after the leader of the street racing pack and that one alone. Surely most gamers would want to take down as many street racers as possible, Need for Speed-style, but the fact that you're required to go for just one particular racer leading an illicit street race is baffling when there's a "Beat 'em All" mode whose goal is to write off as many opponents as possible, which was so easy enough to do in the regular race mode that you could spend the first two laps eliminating the competition and cruise through the third as a victory lap as there's no one else left in the race anyway.
  • The power level mechanic from the eighth game onwards. If you just barely scraping by, the race will be really, really hard. If you're not fulfilling the power level requirements, then the race will be hopelessly impossible to win thanks to Rubberband AI.
  • Requiring players to obtain cars for career mode in Legends that as tiers raise, will be nigh impossible to obtain without spending one's life savings. Players should be able to fully complete career mode without needing the best cars in the game.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The third racing BGM in Asphalt 3 bears some vague resemblance to "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: For starters, the increasingly pervasive use of microtransactions has turned off a number of players, especially when some of the more desirable cars either take a LOT of grinding to unlock or are locked behind a rather extortionate paywall, the cost of which rivals that of full-priced games just for what amounts to be a 3D polygonal model of a car and logic to get it to work. This also led to some backlash among fans of Game Sack and Metal Jesus Rocks who were both paid to make a promotional video about the series' history. Ironically enough, Metal Jesus was called a "Judas" for selling himself out in that video in question. Gameloft did however offer premium versions of Airborne and Xtreme to placate those who are turned off by the freemium business model, though you'd have to sign in to either Apple Arcade or Netflix in order to play those games.