head to head

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 cover artvsSuper Monkey Ball 3D cover art

Colin McRae: Dirt 2vsSuper Monkey Ball 3D

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Monkey Ball 3D leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Colin McRae: Dirt 2Super Monkey Ball 3D

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Super Monkey Ball 3D leans harder on execution: Precise tilt control under gravity is the entire test

Reads0 vs 1

Super Monkey Ball 3D leans harder on reads: Solo stages, no opponent to predict

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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Super Monkey Ball 3D