head to head
vs
Dirt 5vsNHL 95
Dirt 5 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); NHL 95 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Dirt 5NHL 95
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Dirt 5 leans harder on execution: Sliding off-road cars on mixed surfaces is the whole test
Reads2 vs 3
NHL 95 leans harder on reads: Versus play rewards predicting a human defender's commitments
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization4 vs 4
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.