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Burnout Paradise leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Kinect Sports Rivals leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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Execution6 vs 7

Kinect Sports Rivals leans harder on execution: Full-body motion accuracy is the entire skill test

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 2

Burnout Paradise leans harder on optimization: Car collection and event routing

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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