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Alien Rage: Unlimited leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Execution7 vs 6

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

Reads1 vs 0

Alien Rage: Unlimited leans harder on reads: Enemy flanks are scripted AI routines

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft