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Army Men: Sarge's War cover artvsThe Last of Us cover art

Army Men: Sarge's WarvsThe Last of Us

Army Men: Sarge's War leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The Last of Us leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Army Men: Sarge's WarThe Last of Us

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Army Men: Sarge's War leans harder on execution: Shooting and movement aim are the lead axis

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

The Last of Us leans harder on optimization: Resource crafting and encounter routing

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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