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Road Rash II cover artvsThe Need for Speed cover art

Road Rash IIvsThe Need for Speed

Road Rash II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); The Need for Speed leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Road Rash IIThe Need for Speed

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Road Rash II leans harder on variance: traffic and rival attack randomness

Optimization3 vs 3

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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Road Rash II

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The Need for Speed