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Far Cry 2 cover artvsLuxor 3 cover art

Far Cry 2vsLuxor 3

Far Cry 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Luxor 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Far Cry 2Luxor 3

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Luxor 3 leans harder on execution: Aiming and timing shots at moving spheres is the core

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Luxor 3 leans harder on variance: Sphere color sequences add randomness

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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