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Metro: Last Light Redux cover artvsWatch Dogs: Legion cover art

Metro: Last Light ReduxvsWatch Dogs: Legion

Metro: Last Light Redux leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Watch Dogs: Legion leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Metro: Last Light Redux leans harder on execution: aim and stealth timing matter

Reads0 vs 1

Watch Dogs: Legion leans harder on reads: AI scripted; no real modeling.

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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