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Diddy Kong Racing leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); LEGO 2K Drive leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Diddy Kong Racing leans harder on execution: Drift boosts across car, hovercraft and plane demand precision.

Reads1 vs 2

LEGO 2K Drive leans harder on reads: Online races add light human positioning play

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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