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Half-Life 2: Lost Coast cover artvsKinect Adventures cover art

Half-Life 2: Lost CoastvsKinect Adventures

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Kinect Adventures leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Half-Life 2: Lost CoastKinect Adventures

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Kinect Adventures leans harder on execution: Full-body motion timing is the only test present

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 1

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast leans harder on optimization: Too brief to develop any systems layer

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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