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Excitebots: Trick Racing cover artvsWii Sports Resort cover art

Excitebots: Trick RacingvsWii Sports Resort

Excitebots: Trick Racing leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Wii Sports Resort leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Excitebots: Trick RacingWii Sports Resort

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Excitebots: Trick Racing leans harder on execution: Motion-control steering, stunts and boost timing decide every race

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 3

Excitebots: Trick Racing leans harder on optimization: Learning track shortcuts and stunt routes improves times

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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Wii Sports Resort