head to head
vs
Dirt ShowdownvsHardware: Rivals
Dirt Showdown leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Hardware: Rivals leans Execution (Competitive PvP).
Dirt ShowdownHardware: Rivals
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads2 vs 4
Hardware: Rivals leans harder on reads: Human opponents' arena rotations reward some prediction
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization4 vs 3
Dirt Showdown leans harder on optimization: Event types and boost routes are quickly learnable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.