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Forza Horizon 2 cover artvsSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut cover art

Forza Horizon 2vsSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

Forza Horizon 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Forza Horizon 2Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Forza Horizon 2 leans harder on execution: Racing lines, braking points and car control lead everything

Reads1 vs 0

Forza Horizon 2 leans harder on reads: Drivatar AI mimics styles but stays effectively scripted

Variance1 vs 1

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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