head to head
vs
F1 2018vsGears of War 4
F1 2018 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Gears of War 4 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
F1 2018Gears of War 4
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 7
F1 2018 leans harder on execution: Precision car control over full race distances is the ceiling
Reads3 vs 4
Gears of War 4 leans harder on reads: predicting human opponents in PvP
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 6
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.