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GoldenEye 007: Reloaded cover artvsPerfect Dark cover art

GoldenEye 007: ReloadedvsPerfect Dark

GoldenEye 007: Reloaded leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Perfect Dark leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
GoldenEye 007: ReloadedPerfect Dark

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads3 vs 3

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Perfect Dark leans harder on variance: Mission scripting fixed once learned

Optimization4 vs 5

Perfect Dark leans harder on optimization: Objective routing on harder difficulty tiers

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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GoldenEye 007: Reloaded

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Perfect Dark