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Colin McRae: Dirt 2 cover artvsSSX on Tour cover art

Colin McRae: Dirt 2vsSSX on Tour

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); SSX on Tour leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Colin McRae: Dirt 2SSX on Tour

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 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.

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Colin McRae: Dirt 2

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SSX on Tour