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Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded cover artvsThe Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings cover art

Alien Shooter 2: ReloadedvsThe Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Alien Shooter 2: ReloadedThe Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

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Execution6 vs 5

Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded leans harder on execution: Kiting thousand-strong swarms rewards steady aim and movement

Reads0 vs 1

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings leans harder on reads: Scripted enemy patterns

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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 Shooter 2: Reloaded

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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings