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Kinect Sports: Season Two cover artvsThe Need for Speed cover art

Kinect Sports: Season TwovsThe Need for Speed

Kinect Sports: Season Two leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); The Need for Speed leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Kinect Sports: Season TwoThe Need for Speed

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

The Need for Speed leans harder on execution: Holding racing lines at speed through traffic is the test

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 3

The Need for Speed leans harder on optimization: Track knowledge and car choice settle quickly

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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Kinect Sports: Season Two

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The Need for Speed