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Dirt 3 cover artvsF-1 World Grand Prix cover art

Dirt 3vsF-1 World Grand Prix

Dirt 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); F-1 World Grand Prix leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Dirt 3F-1 World Grand Prix

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Dirt 3 leans harder on execution: Car control on loose surfaces is a high physical ceiling

Reads0 vs 1

F-1 World Grand Prix leans harder on reads: AI drivers follow predictable race craft

Variance2 vs 2

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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F-1 World Grand Prix