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Asphalt 7: HeatvsGrand Theft Auto IV

Asphalt 7: Heat leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Grand Theft Auto IV leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Asphalt 7: HeatGrand Theft Auto IV

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Asphalt 7: Heat leans harder on execution: Drift timing and nitro management carry every race

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 3

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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