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Cold Winter cover artvsCrysis 2 cover art

Cold WintervsCrysis 2

Cold Winter leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Crysis 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Cold WinterCrysis 2

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Crysis 2 leans harder on variance: Mostly known encounters with mild patrol randomness

Optimization4 vs 5

Crysis 2 leans harder on optimization: Suit energy management and choosing stealth-versus-armor approaches

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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Cold Winter

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