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L.A. Rush cover artvsTrue Crime: Streets of LA cover art

L.A. RushvsTrue Crime: Streets of LA

L.A. Rush leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); True Crime: Streets of LA leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
L.A. RushTrue Crime: Streets of LA

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

L.A. Rush leans harder on execution: Arcade street driving is the only real demand

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 4

True Crime: Streets of LA leans harder on optimization: Branching missions and upgrade routes learnable

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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L.A. Rush

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True Crime: Streets of LA