head to head
vs
Dirt 3vsTrackMania 2: Canyon
Dirt 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); TrackMania 2: Canyon leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Dirt 3TrackMania 2: Canyon
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 9
TrackMania 2: Canyon leans harder on execution: Millisecond steering and drift control decide every leaderboard place
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 0
Dirt 3 leans harder on variance: Surface conditions and minor physics noise per run
Optimization6 vs 7
TrackMania 2: Canyon leans harder on optimization: Finding the theoretical best line is half the hunt
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.