head to head
vs
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max PaynevsTrackMania DS
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); TrackMania DS leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max PayneTrackMania DS
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 8
TrackMania DS leans harder on execution: Hundredth-second time trials punish every steering wobble
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 0
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne leans harder on variance: deterministic encounters
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.