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Tony Hawk's UndergroundvsTrials Rising

Tony Hawk's Underground leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Trials Rising leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Trials Rising leans harder on execution: Leaderboard times demand perfect bike control

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 0

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Tony Hawk's Underground leans harder on optimization: Mission and score-line routing remain 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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Tony Hawk's Underground

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