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Crashday cover artvsDirt 5 cover art

CrashdayvsDirt 5

Crashday leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Dirt 5 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Dirt 5 leans harder on execution: Sliding off-road cars on mixed surfaces is the whole test

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 4

Dirt 5 leans harder on optimization: Car class knowledge and line choice reward study

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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