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Retro City Rampage DX cover artvsThe Simpsons: Hit & Run cover art

Retro City Rampage DXvsThe Simpsons: Hit & Run

Retro City Rampage DX leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The Simpsons: Hit & Run leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Retro City Rampage DXThe Simpsons: Hit & Run

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Retro City Rampage DX leans harder on execution: top-down driving and shooting timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

The Simpsons: Hit & Run leans harder on optimization: Mission routes, shortcuts, and collectible runs are solvable

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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