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Fallout 2 cover artvsWarhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War cover art

Fallout 2vsWarhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War

Fallout 2 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
Fallout 2Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 2

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War leans harder on reads: AI factions follow fixed expansion doctrines without adaptive modelling

Variance5 vs 5

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization9 vs 9

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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