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Max Payne 3vsStar Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

Max Payne 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast leans harder on variance: Enemy placements fixed after first encounter

Optimization5 vs 6

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast leans harder on optimization: Force builds and saber-system mastery are learnable

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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