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Blast Corps leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Star Wars: Republic Commando leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 5

Blast Corps leans harder on execution: Wrangling awkward demolition vehicles under timers takes real control

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Star Wars: Republic Commando leans harder on variance: Encounters are scripted and repeatable

Optimization7 vs 7

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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