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Payday 2 cover artvsTom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction cover art

Payday 2vsTom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction

Payday 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Payday 2Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction leans harder on reads: Alien archaeans run on scripted-random behaviour, not minds

Variance4 vs 5

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction leans harder on variance: Mutating zones and randomised objectives hide each incursion's shape

Optimization6 vs 6

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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