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Budokan: The Martial Spirit cover artvsKillzone Shadow Fall cover art

Budokan: The Martial SpiritvsKillzone Shadow Fall

Budokan: The Martial Spirit leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Killzone Shadow Fall leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Budokan: The Martial SpiritKillzone Shadow Fall

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads3 vs 4

Killzone Shadow Fall leans harder on reads: PvP modes reward predicting human players

Variance1 vs 2

Killzone Shadow Fall leans harder on variance: Some open level routes and spawn noise

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Budokan: The Martial Spirit

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