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Destruction DerbyvsKane & Lynch: Dead Men

Destruction Derby leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Kane & Lynch: Dead Men leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Destruction Derby leans harder on execution: Steering into crashes while surviving them is hands-on craft

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Destruction Derby leans harder on variance: Multi-car pileups make outcomes partly chaotic

Optimization3 vs 3

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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