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Midtown Madness cover artvsSaints Row: The Third cover art

Midtown MadnessvsSaints Row: The Third

Midtown Madness leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Saints Row: The Third leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Midtown Madness leans harder on execution: Chaotic city driving at speed

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Midtown Madness leans harder on variance: Traffic and pedestrians create random obstacles

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.

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