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FlatOut 2 cover artvsPac-Man 256 cover art

FlatOut 2vsPac-Man 256

FlatOut 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Pac-Man 256 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
FlatOut 2Pac-Man 256

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

FlatOut 2 leans harder on reads: No adaptive opposition worth modeling

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 3

FlatOut 2 leans harder on optimization: Track knowledge and car tuning settle into routine

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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Pac-Man 256