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A Plague Tale: Requiem cover artvsMetro 2033 cover art

A Plague Tale: RequiemvsMetro 2033

A Plague Tale: Requiem leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Metro 2033 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Execution4 vs 5

Metro 2033 leans harder on execution: scarce-ammo gunfights punish sloppy aim

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Metro 2033 leans harder on variance: hidden moral points and supplies first run

Optimization5 vs 5

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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