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One Must Fall: 2097 cover artvsPerfect Dark cover art

One Must Fall: 2097vsPerfect Dark

One Must Fall: 2097 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Perfect Dark leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
One Must Fall: 2097Perfect Dark

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads4 vs 3

One Must Fall: 2097 leans harder on reads: Human duels reward habit-reading; AI tournament does not

Variance1 vs 2

Perfect Dark leans harder on variance: Mission scripting fixed once learned

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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