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DiRT 4 cover artvsMidnight Club 3: DUB Edition cover art

DiRT 4vsMidnight Club 3: DUB Edition

DiRT 4 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
DiRT 4Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

DiRT 4 leans harder on execution: Procedural stages still demand consistent throttle and apex discipline

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

DiRT 4 leans harder on variance: Procedurally generated stages prevent full route memorisation

Optimization5 vs 5

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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DiRT 4

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Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition