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Doom 3vsPayday: The Heist

Doom 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Payday: The Heist leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Payday: The Heist leans harder on execution: Holding off assault waves takes solid gunplay

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Payday: The Heist leans harder on variance: Drill failures and objective locations shuffle

Optimization5 vs 5

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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