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Alan Wake Remastered cover artvsCars 2 cover art

Alan Wake RemasteredvsCars 2

Alan Wake Remastered leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Cars 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Alan Wake RemasteredCars 2

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Cars 2 leans harder on execution: Drifting and item dodging need moderate reflexes

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 2

Alan Wake Remastered leans harder on optimization: resource management lightly 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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