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Perfect Dark leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sniper Elite III leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Perfect Dark leans harder on execution: N64 manual aim and tight mission play

Reads3 vs 1

Perfect Dark leans harder on reads: Multiplayer and clever sims add some human-style adaptation

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Sniper Elite III leans harder on optimization: Open maps reward planned routes, sound masking and relocation

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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