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OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast cover artvsSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut cover art

OutRun 2006: Coast 2 CoastvsSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 CoastSonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast leans harder on execution: Sustained drift control at speed is the heart of it

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast leans harder on optimization: Perfect drift lines and route choice are learnable theory

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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OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast

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Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut