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Project CARS cover artvsRidge Racer 7 cover art

Project CARSvsRidge Racer 7

Project CARS leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Ridge Racer 7 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Project CARSRidge Racer 7

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Project CARS leans harder on execution: Braking points and wheel control at the sim limit

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Project CARS leans harder on variance: Dynamic weather injects some session 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.

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Ridge Racer 7