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Far Cry 4 cover artvsResident Evil Gaiden cover art

Far Cry 4vsResident Evil Gaiden

Far Cry 4 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Resident Evil Gaiden leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Far Cry 4Resident Evil Gaiden

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Far Cry 4 leans harder on execution: Gunplay plus gyrocopter and elephant chaos

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Resident Evil Gaiden leans harder on variance: Item and enemy placement is unknown on first play

Optimization6 vs 6

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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