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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas cover artvsLEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4 cover art

Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasvsLEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); LEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasLEGO Harry Potter Collection: Years 1-4

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas leans harder on execution: Flying school and drive-bys need decent hands

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas leans harder on variance: Territory wars and traffic add light randomness

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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