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Battle: Los Angeles leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Prey leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Battle: Los Angeles leans harder on execution: Corridor gunfights ask basic aim and little else

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 4

Prey leans harder on optimization: Portal and gravity puzzles have fixed solutions

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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