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Far Cry cover artvsHalf-Life cover art

Far CryvsHalf-Life

Far Cry leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Half-Life leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Far CryHalf-Life

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Far Cry leans harder on execution: Long-range gunplay against sharp-eyed mercenaries

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Half-Life leans harder on optimization: Resource routing and encounter knowledge for speedruns

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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