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Dying Light cover artvsKingpin: Life of Crime cover art

Dying LightvsKingpin: Life of Crime

Dying Light leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Kingpin: Life of Crime leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Dying LightKingpin: Life of Crime

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Kingpin: Life of Crime leans harder on execution: Quake-engine gunplay and locational damage aiming

Reads1 vs 2

Kingpin: Life of Crime leans harder on reads: Small multiplayer scene added human prediction

Variance2 vs 2

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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Kingpin: Life of Crime