head to head
vs
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the CityvsSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the CitySonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City leans harder on variance: traffic and rubber-banding randomness
Optimization4 vs 4
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.