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American McGee Presents: Scrapland cover artvsAssassin's Creed II cover art

American McGee Presents: ScraplandvsAssassin's Creed II

American McGee Presents: Scrapland leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Assassin's Creed II leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

American McGee Presents: Scrapland leans harder on variance: Open-world mission states are mildly unpredictable

Optimization4 vs 5

Assassin's Creed II leans harder on optimization: Villa economy and route planning, lightly

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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