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Call of Duty 3 cover artvsCel Damage cover art

Call of Duty 3vsCel Damage

Call of Duty 3 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Cel Damage leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Call of Duty 3Cel Damage

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads3 vs 2

Call of Duty 3 leans harder on reads: Multiplayer adds modest human positional prediction

Variance2 vs 3

Cel Damage leans harder on variance: Weapon pickups scatter randomly across arenas

Optimization3 vs 3

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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Call of Duty 3

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