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Driver: San FranciscovsGrand Theft Auto Advance

Driver: San Francisco leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Grand Theft Auto Advance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Driver: San FranciscoGrand Theft Auto Advance

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Driver: San Francisco leans harder on execution: Car control still decides chases

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Grand Theft Auto Advance leans harder on variance: Mission layouts are unknown once, then fully mapped

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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