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Carmageddon TDR 2000 cover artvsForza Horizon 2 cover art

Carmageddon TDR 2000vsForza Horizon 2

Carmageddon TDR 2000 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Forza Horizon 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Carmageddon TDR 2000Forza Horizon 2

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Forza Horizon 2 leans harder on execution: Racing lines, braking points and car control lead everything

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Carmageddon TDR 2000 leans harder on variance: crash physics and pedestrian randomness

Optimization4 vs 4

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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