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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 cover artvsMicrosoft Flight Simulator (2020) cover art

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000vsMicrosoft Flight Simulator (2020)

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) leans harder on execution: Procedure execution, instrument flying skill

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) leans harder on variance: Real weather and live traffic

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000

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Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)