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

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Gran Turismo 5Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue leans harder on reads: Online racecraft adds light wheel-to-wheel prediction

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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