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Half-Life: Alyx cover artvsSuperflight cover art

Half-Life: AlyxvsSuperflight

Half-Life: Alyx leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Superflight leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Half-Life: AlyxSuperflight

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Half-Life: Alyx leans harder on reads: Combine and headcrabs scripted.

Variance2 vs 3

Superflight leans harder on variance: Procedural maps are unknown each dive

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: Alyx

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Superflight