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Doom 64 cover artvsQuake II cover art

Doom 64vsQuake II

Doom 64 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Quake II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Doom 64Quake II

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Quake II leans harder on execution: Fast strafe-aim against hard-hitting enemies demands clean inputs

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Doom 64

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Quake II