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Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks cover artvsTrue Crime: Streets of LA cover art

Mortal Kombat: Shaolin MonksvsTrue Crime: Streets of LA

Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); True Crime: Streets of LA leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin MonksTrue Crime: Streets of LA

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks leans harder on reads: Bosses telegraph fixed Outworld patterns

Variance1 vs 2

True Crime: Streets of LA leans harder on variance: Random street crimes pop up

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks

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True Crime: Streets of LA