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Lost Planet 3 cover artvsThe Last of Us cover art

Lost Planet 3vsThe Last of Us

Lost Planet 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The Last of Us leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Lost Planet 3The Last of Us

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

The Last of Us leans harder on reads: Enemy AI searches but follows mappable routines

Variance2 vs 2

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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The Last of Us