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Gran Turismo 2 cover artvsGran Turismo 4 Prologue cover art

Gran Turismo 2vsGran Turismo 4 Prologue

Gran Turismo 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Gran Turismo 4 Prologue leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Gran Turismo 2Gran Turismo 4 Prologue

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Gran Turismo 4 Prologue leans harder on reads: minimal, mostly AI rivals not adaptive

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 6

Gran Turismo 2 leans harder on optimization: Car selection, tuning and prize-money routing dominate the career.

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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Gran Turismo 4 Prologue