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Quake 4vsUnreal Championship

Quake 4 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Unreal Championship leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Quake 4Unreal Championship

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Unreal Championship leans harder on execution: Arena aim, dodging and movement speed dominate every duel

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Quake 4

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