head to head
vs
Midtown Madness 3vsNeed for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Midtown Madness 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Midtown Madness 3Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 7
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 leans harder on execution: High-speed cornering and traffic dodging are the whole test
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization4 vs 5
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 leans harder on optimization: Track knowledge and racing lines are learnable and fixed
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.