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Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now cover artvsTotal Immersion Racing cover art

Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse NowvsTotal Immersion Racing

Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Total Immersion Racing leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse NowTotal Immersion Racing

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now leans harder on variance: Pickup spawns and physics chaos add modest run-to-run noise

Optimization5 vs 6

Total Immersion Racing leans harder on optimization: Racing lines and car choice per track reward study

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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