head to head
vs
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2vsSamson
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Samson leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2Samson
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 4
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.