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Burnout Legends cover artvsColin McRae: Dirt cover art

Burnout LegendsvsColin McRae: Dirt

Burnout Legends leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Colin McRae: Dirt leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Burnout LegendsColin McRae: Dirt

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Colin McRae: Dirt leans harder on execution: Car control on loose surfaces is the entire test

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Burnout Legends leans harder on variance: Traffic patterns inject run-to-run chaos

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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Colin McRae: Dirt