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Carmageddon: Max Damage cover artvsDiddy Kong Racing cover art

Carmageddon: Max DamagevsDiddy Kong Racing

Carmageddon: Max Damage leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Diddy Kong Racing leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Carmageddon: Max DamageDiddy Kong Racing

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Diddy Kong Racing leans harder on execution: Drift boosts across car, hovercraft and plane demand precision.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Carmageddon: Max Damage

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Diddy Kong Racing