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Prototype 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Prototype 2Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage leans harder on execution: Crowd control and hit timing against punishing enemy waves

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Prototype 2 leans harder on variance: Sandbox encounters carry slight randomness

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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