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Dirt 3 cover artvsGran Turismo cover art

Dirt 3vsGran Turismo

Dirt 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Gran Turismo leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Dirt 3Gran Turismo

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Dirt 3 leans harder on variance: Surface conditions and minor physics noise per run

Optimization6 vs 7

Gran Turismo leans harder on optimization: Tuning, car choice, and license tests are solvable

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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