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Aliens: Colonial Marines cover artvsHalf-Life 2: Lost Coast cover art

Aliens: Colonial MarinesvsHalf-Life 2: Lost Coast

Aliens: Colonial Marines leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Half-Life 2: Lost Coast leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Aliens: Colonial MarinesHalf-Life 2: Lost Coast

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Aliens: Colonial Marines leans harder on reads: Broken AI barely follows its own scripts

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 2

Aliens: Colonial Marines leans harder on optimization: Loadout choices barely matter against weak opposition

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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Aliens: Colonial Marines

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Half-Life 2: Lost Coast