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Sonic Free Riders cover artvsWii Play cover art

Sonic Free RidersvsWii Play

Sonic Free Riders leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Wii Play leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Sonic Free RidersWii Play

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Sonic Free Riders leans harder on execution: Full-body Kinect steering is a physical (if unreliable) motor test

Reads1 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on reads: Two-player duels add slight mutual prediction

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 2

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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