Building comparison
head to head
Dirt ShowdownvsMario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Dirt Showdown asks more than Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, and the gap is optimization.
Dirt Showdown
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Accessible car control amid demolition chaos rather than precision racing.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Execution · Twitch Chaos
A party collection of timing minigames designed to keep everyone competitive.
Dirt Showdown leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).
Dirt ShowdownMario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Dirt Showdown leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Dirt Showdown
Drifting, boosting and ramming need solid car control
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Button-timing and waggle minigames are the core test
Reads2 vs 2
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Dirt Showdown
Demolition modes reward predicting human movement a little
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Light couch-PvP guessing in some head-to-head events
Variance2 vs 3
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Dirt Showdown
Crash physics and pack chaos add randomness
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Event RNG and party chaos level the field
Optimization4 vs 2
Dirt Showdown leans clearly harder on optimization.
Dirt Showdown
Event types and boost routes are quickly learnable
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Each event has a shallow optimal technique to learn
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.
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