head to head
vs
Tony Hawk's UndergroundvsTrackMania Nations
Tony Hawk's Underground leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); TrackMania Nations leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Tony Hawk's UndergroundTrackMania Nations
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 9
TrackMania Nations leans harder on execution: Hundredths-perfect inputs on fixed tracks are the entire game
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance0 vs 0
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
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.