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FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage cover artvsSonic & Sega All-Stars Racing cover art

FlatOut: Ultimate CarnagevsSonic & Sega All-Stars Racing

FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).

EXECUTION7 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
FlatOut: Ultimate CarnageSonic & Sega All-Stars Racing

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

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing leans harder on variance: Item rolls and All-Star moves shuffle placements

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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Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing