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Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit cover artvsTOCA 2: Touring Car Challenge cover art

Need for Speed III: Hot PursuitvsTOCA 2: Touring Car Challenge

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); TOCA 2: Touring Car Challenge leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Need for Speed III: Hot PursuitTOCA 2: Touring Car Challenge

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

TOCA 2: Touring Car Challenge leans harder on execution: Perfect inputs through every corner is what wins races

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit leans harder on variance: Traffic and cop placement vary mildly per race

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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Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit

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TOCA 2: Touring Car Challenge