head to head

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men cover artvsWii Play: Motion cover art

Kane & Lynch: Dead MenvsWii Play: Motion

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Wii Play: Motion leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Kane & Lynch: Dead MenWii Play: Motion

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Wii Play: Motion leans harder on execution: motion-control precision across minigames

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 2

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men leans harder on optimization: Squad orders and encounter knowledge

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: Dead Men

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Wii Play: Motion