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FlatOut 2 cover artvsZombie Army 4: Dead War cover art

FlatOut 2vsZombie Army 4: Dead War

FlatOut 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Zombie Army 4: Dead War leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
FlatOut 2Zombie Army 4: Dead War

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

FlatOut 2 leans harder on reads: No adaptive opposition worth modeling

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

Zombie Army 4: Dead War leans harder on optimization: Loadout perks, trap placement, score-chain knowledge

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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