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Half-Life 2 cover artvsThe Expendables 2: The Videogame cover art

Half-Life 2vsThe Expendables 2: The Videogame

Half-Life 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); The Expendables 2: The Videogame leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Half-Life 2The Expendables 2: The Videogame

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

The Expendables 2: The Videogame leans harder on variance: Spawns are fixed and learnable

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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Half-Life 2

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The Expendables 2: The Videogame