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Metro 2033 cover artvsWorld War Z: Aftermath cover art

Metro 2033vsWorld War Z: Aftermath

Metro 2033 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); World War Z: Aftermath leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Metro 2033World War Z: Aftermath

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

World War Z: Aftermath leans harder on execution: Horde shooting and melee timing carry every swarm

Reads0 vs 1

World War Z: Aftermath leans harder on reads: Zombies are pathfinding scripts, not minds

Variance3 vs 3

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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