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FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage cover artvsMickey's Speedway USA cover art

FlatOut: Ultimate CarnagevsMickey's Speedway USA

FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Mickey's Speedway USA leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).

EXECUTION7 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
FlatOut: Ultimate CarnageMickey's Speedway USA

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage leans harder on execution: Holding racing lines through wrecks and ragdoll chaos tests hands

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Mickey's Speedway USA leans harder on variance: Weapon item pickups add randomness

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: Ultimate Carnage

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Mickey's Speedway USA