Building comparison
head to head
Half-Life 2vsHogan's Alley
Hogan's Alley asks more than Half-Life 2, and the gap is execution.
Half-Life 2
Execution · Pure Mechanics
Landmark FPS built on physics puzzles and tight gunplay.
Hogan's Alley
Execution · Pure Mechanics
NES Zapper classic testing raw aim against pop-up gangster targets.
Half-Life 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Hogan's Alley leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Half-Life 2Hogan's Alley
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 8
Hogan's Alley leans clearly harder on execution.
Half-Life 2
Gravity gun and shooting demand precision.
Hogan's Alley
Pure light-gun aim and reaction speed
Reads1 vs 0
Half-Life 2 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Half-Life 2
Combine AI scripted, non-adaptive.
Hogan's Alley
Cardboard targets cannot adapt
Variance1 vs 2
Hogan's Alley leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Half-Life 2
Almost no randomness.
Hogan's Alley
Target order randomizes within simple sets
Optimization3 vs 2
Half-Life 2 leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Half-Life 2
Linear progression with no builds.
Hogan's Alley
Little to plan beyond gangster-vs-civilian recognition
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.