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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne cover artvsPocky & Rocky cover art

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max PaynevsPocky & Rocky

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Pocky & Rocky leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max PaynePocky & Rocky

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Pocky & Rocky leans harder on execution: Dodging dense bullet patterns while aiming is everything

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne leans harder on optimization: bullet-time meter management and routing

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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