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American McGee Presents: Scrapland cover artvsEnslaved: Odyssey to the West cover art

American McGee Presents: ScraplandvsEnslaved: Odyssey to the West

American McGee Presents: Scrapland leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Enslaved: Odyssey to the West leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
American McGee Presents: ScraplandEnslaved: Odyssey to the West

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

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West leans harder on optimization: Upgrades and encounter solutions are learnable

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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American McGee Presents: Scrapland

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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West