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Dirt Rally cover artvsMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance cover art

Dirt RallyvsMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Dirt Rally leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 8

Dirt Rally leans harder on execution: Unforgiving car control on loose surfaces is the entire test

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Dirt Rally leans harder on variance: Weather and surface degradation vary between stages

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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