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Alice: Madness Returns cover artvsDead Rising 4 cover art

Alice: Madness ReturnsvsDead Rising 4

Alice: Madness Returns leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Dead Rising 4 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Alice: Madness ReturnsDead Rising 4

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Dead Rising 4 leans harder on variance: item/weapon spawn randomness

Optimization5 vs 6

Dead Rising 4 leans harder on optimization: weapon crafting and time-based objective routing

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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Alice: Madness Returns

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