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Clive Barker's Undying cover artvsJohn Carpenter's Toxic Commando cover art

Clive Barker's UndyingvsJohn Carpenter's Toxic Commando

Clive Barker's Undying leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); John Carpenter's Toxic Commando leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Clive Barker's UndyingJohn Carpenter's Toxic Commando

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando leans harder on variance: Randomized spawns and loot create chaos

Optimization5 vs 5

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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Clive Barker's Undying

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John Carpenter's Toxic Commando