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Forza Horizon cover artvsProject Gotham Racing cover art

Forza HorizonvsProject Gotham Racing

Forza Horizon leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Project Gotham Racing leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Forza HorizonProject Gotham Racing

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Project Gotham Racing leans harder on execution: Clean lines and stylish car control under the Kudos system

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Project Gotham Racing leans harder on optimization: Racing lines and Kudos-maximising routes are solvable per track

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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