head to head
vs
Just Cause 2vsRetro City Rampage DX
Just Cause 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Retro City Rampage DX leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Just Cause 2Retro City Rampage DX
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 5
Retro City Rampage DX leans harder on execution: top-down driving and shooting timing
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Just Cause 2 leans harder on variance: Sandbox chaos varies moment to moment
Optimization4 vs 4
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.