head to head

Dirt Rally cover artvsTrials 2: Second Edition cover art

Dirt RallyvsTrials 2: Second Edition

Dirt Rally leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Trials 2: Second Edition leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Dirt RallyTrials 2: Second Edition

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 9

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

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 5

Dirt Rally leans harder on optimization: Pacenote interpretation, setup tuning and stage memorisation

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

full breakdown

Dirt Rally

full breakdown

Trials 2: Second Edition