head to head
vs
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2vsRage
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Rage leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2Rage
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
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.
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.