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Children of the Sun cover artvsCommandos: Behind Enemy Lines cover art

Children of the SunvsCommandos: Behind Enemy Lines

Children of the Sun leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Children of the SunCommandos: Behind Enemy Lines

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 4

Children of the Sun leans harder on execution: Steering the bullet mid-flight demands precise aim adjustments

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 9

Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines leans harder on optimization: Each mission is a solvable stealth puzzle

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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Children of the Sun

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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines