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Dragon HillsvsKane & Lynch: Dead Men

Dragon Hills leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); Kane & Lynch: Dead Men leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men leans harder on reads: Fragile Alliance betrayals add faint human guessing

Variance3 vs 2

Dragon Hills leans harder on variance: random terrain and enemy generation

Optimization3 vs 3

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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