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Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine cover artvsTrue Crime: Streets of LA cover art

Indiana Jones and the Infernal MachinevsTrue Crime: Streets of LA

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); True Crime: Streets of LA leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Indiana Jones and the Infernal MachineTrue Crime: Streets of LA

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

True Crime: Streets of LA leans harder on variance: Random street crimes pop up

Optimization6 vs 4

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine leans harder on optimization: Environmental puzzle routing per level

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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Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine

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True Crime: Streets of LA