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Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood cover artvsKillzone cover art

Call of Juarez: Bound In BloodvsKillzone

Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Killzone leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Killzone leans harder on reads: Campaign Helghast follow scripts; servers are long dead

Variance2 vs 1

Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood leans harder on variance: Encounter layouts are unknown on first run, then fixed

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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