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FlatOut cover artvsMark McMorris Infinite Air cover art

FlatOutvsMark McMorris Infinite Air

FlatOut leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Mark McMorris Infinite Air leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
FlatOutMark McMorris Infinite Air

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

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 5

Mark McMorris Infinite Air leans harder on optimization: Trick chaining and line selection optimize scores

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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