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Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tony Hawk's Pro Skater leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Need for Speed: Porsche UnleashedTony Hawk's Pro Skater

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater leans harder on execution: Trick timing, landings, and combo inputs are everything

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed leans harder on variance: Fixed point-to-point courses; little hidden.

Optimization5 vs 6

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater leans harder on optimization: Score lines and goal routing are solvable per level

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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