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Gran Turismo 4 cover artvsTrackMania 2: Canyon cover art

Gran Turismo 4vsTrackMania 2: Canyon

Gran Turismo 4 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); TrackMania 2: Canyon leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Gran Turismo 4TrackMania 2: Canyon

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

TrackMania 2: Canyon leans harder on execution: Millisecond steering and drift control decide every leaderboard place

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

Gran Turismo 4 leans harder on variance: Deterministic outside slight tyre wear modelling

Optimization7 vs 7

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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TrackMania 2: Canyon