head to head
vs
F1 2021vsGears of War 4
F1 2021 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Gears of War 4 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
F1 2021Gears of War 4
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 7
F1 2021 leans harder on execution: Perfect inputs would nail every braking point and apex lap after lap
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.