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inFamous 2 cover artvsZone of the Enders cover art

inFamous 2vsZone of the Enders

inFamous 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Zone of the Enders leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
inFamous 2Zone of the Enders

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Zone of the Enders leans harder on execution: High-speed mech dashes, melee timing, lock-on juggling

Reads0 vs 1

Zone of the Enders leans harder on reads: Enemy AI is patterned, not adaptive

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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