head to head
vs
Aliens: Colonial MarinesvsHong Kong 97
Aliens: Colonial Marines leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Hong Kong 97 leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).
Aliens: Colonial MarinesHong Kong 97
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 2
Hong Kong 97 leans harder on variance: Spawn patterns have slight randomness
Optimization3 vs 1
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.