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Borderlands cover artvsBurnout Crash! cover art

BorderlandsvsBurnout Crash!

Borderlands leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Burnout Crash! leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Borderlands leans harder on execution: Standard FPS aim; numbers matter more than precision

Reads0 vs 1

Burnout Crash! leans harder on reads: No adaptive opponent at the intersection

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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