head to head
vs
Dirt 3vsWave Race: Blue Storm
Dirt 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Wave Race: Blue Storm leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Dirt 3Wave Race: Blue Storm
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 1
Wave Race: Blue Storm leans harder on reads: AI racers follow rubber-band scripts
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Dirt 3 leans harder on optimization: Stage knowledge and setup tuning reward study
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.