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Colin McRae Rally 2.0 cover artvsCrazy Taxi 2 cover art

Colin McRae Rally 2.0vsCrazy Taxi 2

Colin McRae Rally 2.0 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Crazy Taxi 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Colin McRae Rally 2.0Crazy Taxi 2

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Colin McRae Rally 2.0 leans harder on execution: Surface-specific car control at speed decides every stage

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Crazy Taxi 2 leans harder on optimization: Route knowledge and fare chaining define high scores

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 Rally 2.0

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Crazy Taxi 2