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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem cover artvsGrand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars cover art

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's RequiemvsGrand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's RequiemGrand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars