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Alan Wake leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Trespasser leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Trespasser leans harder on execution: awkward physics-based aiming and movement

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 3

Alan Wake leans harder on optimization: Resource management and set encounters learnable

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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