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Excite Truck cover artvsSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut cover art

Excite TruckvsSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

Excite Truck leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Excite TruckSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Excite Truck leans harder on execution: Motion-controlled aerial truck handling

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Excite Truck leans harder on variance: Terrain-morphing pickups shuffle the track

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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