head to head
vs
Alien Shooter: VengeancevsFinal Fight
Alien Shooter: Vengeance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Final Fight leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Alien Shooter: VengeanceFinal Fight
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Alien Shooter: Vengeance leans harder on execution: Aiming and dodging swarming aliens is the core
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 2
Alien Shooter: Vengeance leans harder on variance: Spawns and drops add modest randomness
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.