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Jones in the Fast Lane cover artvsThis Is the Police cover art

Jones in the Fast LanevsThis Is the Police

Jones in the Fast Lane leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); This Is the Police leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION0 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Jones in the Fast LaneThis Is the Police

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

This Is the Police leans harder on execution: Menu-driven dispatching, no dexterity

Reads1 vs 0

Jones in the Fast Lane leans harder on reads: Rival players matter little; Jones AI follows fixed logic

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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Jones in the Fast Lane

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This Is the Police