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Alien Rage: Unlimited cover artvsCall of Juarez: Bound In Blood cover art

Alien Rage: UnlimitedvsCall of Juarez: Bound In Blood

Alien Rage: Unlimited leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Alien Rage: UnlimitedCall of Juarez: Bound In Blood

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Alien Rage: Unlimited leans harder on execution: Old-school twitch aim against relentless waves is the whole game

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood leans harder on variance: Encounter layouts are unknown on first run, then fixed

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Alien Rage: Unlimited

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Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood