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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue cover artvsProject CARS cover art

Gran Turismo 5 ProloguevsProject CARS

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Project CARS leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Gran Turismo 5 PrologueProject CARS

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Project CARS leans harder on variance: Dynamic weather injects some session randomness

Optimization7 vs 6

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue leans harder on optimization: Tuning setups and racing lines are an engineering problem

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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Project CARS