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Call of Duty: Roads to Victory cover artvsKane & Lynch: Dead Men cover art

Call of Duty: Roads to VictoryvsKane & Lynch: Dead Men

Call of Duty: Roads to Victory leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Kane & Lynch: Dead Men leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Call of Duty: Roads to VictoryKane & Lynch: Dead Men

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Call of Duty: Roads to Victory leans harder on execution: PSP aiming with limited inputs raises the physical bar

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men leans harder on variance: Set-piece encounters vary little

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: Roads to Victory

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Kane & Lynch: Dead Men