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Call of Duty: World at War cover artvsMario Kart DS cover art

Call of Duty: World at WarvsMario Kart DS

Call of Duty: World at War leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mario Kart DS leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Call of Duty: World at WarMario Kart DS

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Mario Kart DS leans harder on execution: Snaking demands relentless precise drift inputs

Reads3 vs 3

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Mario Kart DS leans harder on variance: Item RNG decides tight finishes

Optimization5 vs 5

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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