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Darksiders: Warmastered Edition cover artvsP.O.W.: Prisoners of War cover art

Darksiders: Warmastered EditionvsP.O.W.: Prisoners of War

Darksiders: Warmastered Edition leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); P.O.W.: Prisoners of War leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Darksiders: Warmastered EditionP.O.W.: Prisoners of War

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

P.O.W.: Prisoners of War leans harder on execution: Punch-kick timing against crowds is the whole game

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Darksiders: Warmastered Edition leans harder on optimization: combo trees and puzzle routes solvable

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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P.O.W.: Prisoners of War