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Crysis 2 cover artvsDoom 64 cover art

Crysis 2vsDoom 64

Crysis 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Doom 64 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Crysis 2Doom 64

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Crysis 2 leans harder on reads: Scripted Ceph and soldiers follow fixed patterns

Variance2 vs 3

Doom 64 leans harder on variance: Dark level ambushes and secret switches are opaque on first run

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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