head to head
vs
Alien Breed EvolutionvsQuake II
Alien Breed Evolution leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Quake II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Alien Breed EvolutionQuake II
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 8
Quake II leans harder on execution: Fast strafe-aim against hard-hitting enemies demands clean inputs
Reads1 vs 0
Alien Breed Evolution leans harder on reads: Aliens charge on scripts, nothing adapting to you
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
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.