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Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII cover artvsDirt 5 cover art

Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWIIvsDirt 5

Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Dirt 5 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWIIDirt 5

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Dirt 5 leans harder on execution: Sliding off-road cars on mixed surfaces is the whole test

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Dirt 5 leans harder on variance: Dynamic weather shifts grip unpredictably

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.

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