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Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy cover artvsOutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast cover art

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor LegacyvsOutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor LegacyOutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast leans harder on execution: Sustained drift control at speed is the heart of it

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

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OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast