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Gran Turismo 7vsShadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

Gran Turismo 7 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Gran Turismo 7Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 6

Gran Turismo 7 leans harder on execution: Braking points and throttle modulation define lap times.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun leans harder on variance: Guard cone randomness is minimal once patterns are learned

Optimization8 vs 8

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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