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Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under PressurevsWii Sports Resort

Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Wii Sports Resort leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under PressureWii Sports Resort

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Wii Sports Resort leans harder on reads: Local versus duels involve mild feinting

Variance1 vs 2

Wii Sports Resort leans harder on variance: Slight physics and CPU pattern randomness

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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