head to head

FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage cover artvsTwisted Metal III cover art

FlatOut: Ultimate CarnagevsTwisted Metal III

FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Twisted Metal III leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
FlatOut: Ultimate CarnageTwisted Metal III

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 3

Twisted Metal III leans harder on reads: Versus humans there's mild positional mind-gaming

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Twisted Metal III