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Colin McRae: Dirt 2 cover artvsGeometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 cover art

Colin McRae: Dirt 2vsGeometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Colin McRae: Dirt 2Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 leans harder on execution: Twin-stick dodging in dense swarms is the core test

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Colin McRae: Dirt 2

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Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2