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Far Cry 2 cover artvsMighty Doom cover art

Far Cry 2vsMighty Doom

Far Cry 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mighty Doom leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Far Cry 2Mighty Doom

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Mighty Doom leans harder on reads: Enemies and bosses scripted, not adaptive

Variance3 vs 4

Mighty Doom leans harder on variance: Randomized loot and level layouts vary runs

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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