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Dead In Bermuda cover artvsX-COM: UFO Defense cover art

Dead In BermudavsX-COM: UFO Defense

Dead In Bermuda leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); X-COM: UFO Defense leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Dead In BermudaX-COM: UFO Defense

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

X-COM: UFO Defense leans harder on execution: Turn-based; only inventory clicking

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 8

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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X-COM: UFO Defense