head to head
Mad Max asks more than Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and the gap is optimization.

Execution · Light / Casual
A famously broken racer that tests nothing because nothing functions.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Wasteland open-worlder upgrading one car to conquer scripted scrap territories.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing leans Execution (Light / Casual); Mad Max leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Mad Max leans clearly harder on execution.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Opponents never move; holding forward wins
Mad Max
Car combat and counter-brawling timing
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
There is no functioning opposition
Mad Max
War boys follow fixed AI
Mad Max leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Nothing is hidden because nothing works
Mad Max
Open world is static once scouted
Mad Max leans clearly harder on optimization.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
No systems exist to solve - the game is unfinished
Mad Max
Magnum Opus upgrades and stronghold routing
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.