head to head

Colin McRae: Dirt cover artvsMotorStorm: Pacific Rift cover art

Colin McRae: DirtvsMotorStorm: Pacific Rift

Colin McRae: Dirt leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); MotorStorm: Pacific Rift leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Colin McRae: DirtMotorStorm: Pacific Rift

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Colin McRae: Dirt leans harder on execution: Car control on loose surfaces is the entire test

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

MotorStorm: Pacific Rift leans harder on variance: terrain hazards and crashes vary races

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

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MotorStorm: Pacific Rift