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Half-Life 2vsSky Destroyer

Half-Life 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Sky Destroyer leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Half-Life 2Sky Destroyer

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Sky Destroyer leans harder on execution: Aiming and dodging on rails is the entire test

Reads1 vs 0

Half-Life 2 leans harder on reads: Combine AI scripted, non-adaptive.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 3

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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