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Forza Horizon 3 cover artvsWave Race: Blue Storm cover art

Forza Horizon 3vsWave Race: Blue Storm

Forza Horizon 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Wave Race: Blue Storm leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Forza Horizon 3Wave Race: Blue Storm

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Wave Race: Blue Storm leans harder on execution: Throttle control over dynamic waves is a pure hands test

Reads2 vs 1

Forza Horizon 3 leans harder on reads: Drivatars mimic but don't truly adapt

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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Wave Race: Blue Storm