head to head
vs
F1 2018vsPerfect Dark
F1 2018 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Perfect Dark leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
F1 2018Perfect Dark
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 7
F1 2018 leans harder on execution: Precision car control over full race distances is the ceiling
Reads3 vs 3
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
F1 2018 leans harder on optimization: Setup work, tyre strategy and R&D planning decide championships
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.