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Dead Rising 4 cover artvsinFamous 2 cover art

Dead Rising 4vsinFamous 2

Dead Rising 4 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); inFamous 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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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.

Variance2 vs 1

Dead Rising 4 leans harder on variance: item/weapon spawn randomness

Optimization6 vs 5

Dead Rising 4 leans harder on optimization: weapon crafting and time-based objective routing

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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