head to head
vs
Darksiders IIvsDead Island
Darksiders II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Dead Island leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Darksiders IIDead Island
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Darksiders II leans harder on execution: faster combo combat as Death
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Dead Island leans harder on variance: weapon drops and spawns add noise
Optimization6 vs 6
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.