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Marathon Infinity cover artvsMax Payne 3 cover art

Marathon InfinityvsMax Payne 3

Marathon Infinity leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Max Payne 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Marathon InfinityMax Payne 3

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 1

Marathon Infinity leans harder on reads: Multiplayer deathmatch adds light human prediction

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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