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Face Raiders cover artvsHalf-Life 2: Lost Coast cover art

Face RaidersvsHalf-Life 2: Lost Coast

Face Raiders leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Half-Life 2: Lost Coast leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Face RaidersHalf-Life 2: Lost Coast

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Face Raiders leans harder on execution: Physically aiming the 3DS at flying faces is the game

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 2

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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Half-Life 2: Lost Coast