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Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days cover artvsSleeping Dogs cover art

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog DaysvsSleeping Dogs

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sleeping Dogs leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog DaysSleeping Dogs

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days leans harder on reads: Multiplayer betrayal modes add slight human reads

Variance2 vs 1

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days leans harder on variance: Fixed encounters with chaotic feel

Optimization3 vs 3

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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Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

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Sleeping Dogs