head to head
vs
FlatOutvsIndependence Day
FlatOut leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Independence Day leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
FlatOutIndependence Day
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
FlatOut leans harder on execution: Car control through destructible chaos at speed
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 2
FlatOut leans harder on variance: Physics debris and crash chaos inject 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.