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FlatOut 2 cover artvsSki Safari cover art

FlatOut 2vsSki Safari

FlatOut 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Ski Safari leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
FlatOut 2Ski Safari

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 4

Ski Safari leans harder on variance: Avalanche and terrain spawns randomized each run

Optimization4 vs 4

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.

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FlatOut 2

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Ski Safari