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Dirt ShowdownvsMario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Dirt Showdown leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).
Dirt ShowdownMario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Dirt Showdown leans harder on execution: Drifting, boosting and ramming need solid car control
Reads2 vs 2
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games leans harder on variance: Event RNG and motion-control noise add slop
Optimization4 vs 2
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.