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Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed cover artvsSurgeon Simulator 2013 cover art

Need for Speed: Porsche UnleashedvsSurgeon Simulator 2013

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Surgeon Simulator 2013 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Need for Speed: Porsche UnleashedSurgeon Simulator 2013

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Surgeon Simulator 2013 leans harder on variance: Floppy physics adds chaos but procedures themselves are fixed

Optimization5 vs 4

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed leans harder on optimization: Career car trading and upgrade economy reward planning.

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: Porsche Unleashed

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Surgeon Simulator 2013