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Colin McRae: Dirt 2 cover artvsWRC 9 cover art

Colin McRae: Dirt 2vsWRC 9

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); WRC 9 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Colin McRae: Dirt 2WRC 9

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 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

WRC 9 leans harder on optimization: car setup, pacenote route learning

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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WRC 9