head to head
vs
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2vsSan Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 8
San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing leans harder on execution: Surviving jumps and hills at speed is twitch driving
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.