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Impossible Mission cover artvsPostal 2 cover art

Impossible MissionvsPostal 2

Impossible Mission leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Postal 2 leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Impossible MissionPostal 2

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Impossible Mission leans harder on optimization: Search routing under the time limit

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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Postal 2