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Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Colin McRae Rally 2.0 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Colin McRae Rally 2.0 leans harder on execution: Surface-specific car control at speed decides every stage

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Colin McRae Rally 2.0 leans harder on variance: Mid-stage surprises minimal once pace notes are internalised

Optimization5 vs 5

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.

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Colin McRae Rally 2.0