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Dungeon Siege III cover artvsMetro 2033 cover art

Dungeon Siege IIIvsMetro 2033

Dungeon Siege III leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Metro 2033 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Dungeon Siege IIIMetro 2033

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Metro 2033 leans harder on execution: scarce-ammo gunfights punish sloppy aim

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Dungeon Siege III leans harder on optimization: Ability empowerment choices and talent builds

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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