head to head
vs
Alien Breed 3: DescentvsFlatOut 2
Alien Breed 3: Descent leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); FlatOut 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Alien Breed 3: DescentFlatOut 2
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 7
FlatOut 2 leans harder on execution: High-speed control amid wrecks and ragdolls
Reads0 vs 1
FlatOut 2 leans harder on reads: No adaptive opposition worth modeling
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization4 vs 4
Even - both lean on optimization about the same.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.