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Colin McRae: Dirt 2 cover artvsR.C. Pro-Am cover art

Colin McRae: Dirt 2vsR.C. Pro-Am

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); R.C. Pro-Am leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Colin McRae: Dirt 2R.C. Pro-Am

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 leans harder on execution: precise rally driving and braking required

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

R.C. Pro-Am leans harder on optimization: Upgrade collection and track memorisation compound across races

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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R.C. Pro-Am