head to head
vs
OutRun 2vsTony Hawk's Underground
OutRun 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tony Hawk's Underground leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
OutRun 2Tony Hawk's Underground
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 8
Tony Hawk's Underground leans harder on execution: Combos plus off-board tricks keep the input ceiling high
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 0
OutRun 2 leans harder on variance: Minor traffic randomness
Optimization6 vs 6
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.