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Crash Team Racing cover artvsPac-Man 99 cover art

Crash Team RacingvsPac-Man 99

Crash Team Racing leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Pac-Man 99 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Crash Team RacingPac-Man 99

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads3 vs 2

Crash Team Racing leans harder on reads: Human races involve item baiting and blocking

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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.

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Pac-Man 99