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Aliens: Colonial Marines cover artvsSleeping Dogs cover art

Aliens: Colonial MarinesvsSleeping Dogs

Aliens: Colonial Marines leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sleeping Dogs leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Aliens: Colonial MarinesSleeping Dogs

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Sleeping Dogs leans harder on execution: brawling and driving need timing/aim

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 3

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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Aliens: Colonial Marines

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Sleeping Dogs