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It Takes Two leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
It Takes TwoTurok 3: Shadow of Oblivion

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion leans harder on execution: N64 FPS aim and movement carry the campaign

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

It Takes Two leans harder on variance: Puzzle solutions are fixed; little hidden randomness

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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