head to head
vs
Bus DrivervsJust Cause 2
Bus Driver leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Just Cause 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Bus DriverJust Cause 2
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Just Cause 2 leans harder on variance: Sandbox chaos varies moment to moment
Optimization5 vs 4
Bus Driver leans harder on optimization: Timetable adherence and rule-following decide the score
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.