head to head
Colin McRae Rally 2.0vsCrazy Taxi 3: High Roller
Colin McRae Rally 2.0 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Colin McRae Rally 2.0Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
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 3: High Roller leans harder on optimization: Map routes and shortcut knowledge separate 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.

