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Dragon Hills cover artvsTrue Crime: Streets of LA cover art

Dragon HillsvsTrue Crime: Streets of LA

Dragon Hills leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); True Crime: Streets of LA leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Dragon HillsTrue Crime: Streets of LA

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.

Variance3 vs 2

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

Optimization3 vs 4

True Crime: Streets of LA leans harder on optimization: Branching missions and upgrade routes learnable

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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True Crime: Streets of LA