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Doom Eternal cover artvsR-Type III: The Third Lightning cover art

Doom EternalvsR-Type III: The Third Lightning

Doom Eternal leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); R-Type III: The Third Lightning leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION9 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Doom EternalR-Type III: The Third Lightning

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 8

Doom Eternal leans harder on execution: Weapon swapping and movement push the hands hard.

Reads1 vs 0

Doom Eternal leans harder on reads: Demon AI is scripted, not adaptive.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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R-Type III: The Third Lightning