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Day of Defeat cover artvsKillzone 2 cover art

Day of DefeatvsKillzone 2

Day of Defeat leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Killzone 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Day of DefeatKillzone 2

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Killzone 2 leans harder on execution: Weighty gunplay punishes imprecise aim hard

Reads5 vs 4

Day of Defeat leans harder on reads: human teams feint and rotate around objectives

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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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