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Diddy Kong Racing DS cover artvsFlatOut 2 cover art

Diddy Kong Racing DSvsFlatOut 2

Diddy Kong Racing DS leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); FlatOut 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Diddy Kong Racing DSFlatOut 2

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

FlatOut 2 leans harder on execution: High-speed control amid wrecks and ragdolls

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Diddy Kong Racing DS

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FlatOut 2