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Driver: Parallel Lines cover artvsSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut cover art

Driver: Parallel LinesvsSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

Driver: Parallel Lines leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Driver: Parallel LinesSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Driver: Parallel Lines leans harder on variance: Traffic adds light noise to chases

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Driver: Parallel Lines

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Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut