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Colin McRae: Dirt cover artvsColin McRae Rally 2.0 cover art

Colin McRae: DirtvsColin McRae Rally 2.0

Colin McRae: Dirt leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Colin McRae Rally 2.0 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Colin McRae: DirtColin McRae Rally 2.0

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Colin McRae: Dirt leans harder on reads: Racing the clock or AI lines, nothing adapts

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

Colin McRae Rally 2.0 leans harder on optimization: Memorising stages and tuning setups converges times steadily

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

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Colin McRae Rally 2.0