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Tony Hawk's Proving Ground cover artvsTony Hawk's Underground cover art

Tony Hawk's Proving GroundvsTony Hawk's Underground

Tony Hawk's Proving Ground leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tony Hawk's Underground leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Tony Hawk's Proving GroundTony Hawk's Underground

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Tony Hawk's Proving Ground leans harder on reads: Multiplayer score battles barely involve predicting opponents

Variance1 vs 0

Tony Hawk's Proving Ground leans harder on variance: Skateparks are fixed and fully learnable

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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Tony Hawk's Proving Ground

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Tony Hawk's Underground