head to head
vs
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)vsPac-Man 99
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Pac-Man 99 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)Pac-Man 99
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads2 vs 2
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 4
Pac-Man 99 leans harder on variance: Incoming attacks and ghost spawns randomize each match
Optimization5 vs 6
Pac-Man 99 leans harder on optimization: Ghost-train routing and target strategies have known best lines
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.