head to head

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 cover artvsR4: Ridge Racer Type 4 cover art

Colin McRae: Dirt 2vsR4: Ridge Racer Type 4

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Colin McRae: Dirt 2R4: Ridge Racer Type 4

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 leans harder on variance: weather and surface conditions vary

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.

full breakdown

Colin McRae: Dirt 2

full breakdown

R4: Ridge Racer Type 4