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Burnout Paradise Remastered cover artvsForza Horizon 2 cover art

Burnout Paradise RemasteredvsForza Horizon 2

Burnout Paradise Remastered leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Forza Horizon 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Burnout Paradise RemasteredForza Horizon 2

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Burnout Paradise Remastered leans harder on execution: high-speed drifting and crash-avoidance reflexes

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Burnout Paradise Remastered leans harder on variance: traffic pattern randomness affects runs

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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