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Crysis 2vsDOOM (2016)

Crysis 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); DOOM (2016) leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Crysis 2DOOM (2016)

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

DOOM (2016) leans harder on execution: Aim, movement, glory-kill timing all peak.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

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

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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