head to head
Gun.SmokevsMax Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Gun.Smoke leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Gun.SmokeMax Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 7
Gun.Smoke leans harder on execution: Three-way shot aiming under relentless scroll pressure
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization4 vs 5
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne leans harder on optimization: bullet-time meter management and routing
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

