head to head
Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse NowvsGrand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse NowGrand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now leans harder on execution: Perfect car control trivialises wrecking AI opponents and surviving
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories leans harder on optimization: Empire-building business system layers economy onto missions
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

