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Dirt 3 cover artvsTrackMania 2: Stadium cover art

Dirt 3vsTrackMania 2: Stadium

Dirt 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); TrackMania 2: Stadium leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Dirt 3TrackMania 2: Stadium

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

TrackMania 2: Stadium leans harder on execution: Perfect inputs ARE the game - hundredths decide leaderboards

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 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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TrackMania 2: Stadium