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Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy cover artvsVice: Project Doom cover art

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor LegacyvsVice: Project Doom

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Vice: Project Doom leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor LegacyVice: Project Doom

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Vice: Project Doom leans harder on execution: NES-era precision jumps, whip timing and driving reflexes

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

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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Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

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Vice: Project Doom