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Far Cry 2 cover artvsSilent Hill: The Arcade cover art

Far Cry 2vsSilent Hill: The Arcade

Far Cry 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Silent Hill: The Arcade leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Far Cry 2Silent Hill: The Arcade

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Silent Hill: The Arcade leans harder on execution: Light-gun aiming and reaction speed are core

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Far Cry 2 leans harder on optimization: Loadout and route planning across hostile terrain

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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Silent Hill: The Arcade