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Dead Rising 2vsDragon's Dogma

Dead Rising 2 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Dragon's Dogma leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Dead Rising 2Dragon's Dogma

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Dead Rising 2 leans harder on variance: Survivor events are scripted-but-unknown on first runs

Optimization7 vs 7

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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