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Quake II cover artvsRaptor: Call of the Shadows cover art

Quake IIvsRaptor: Call of the Shadows

Quake II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Raptor: Call of the Shadows leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Quake IIRaptor: Call of the Shadows

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Quake II leans harder on execution: Fast strafe-aim against hard-hitting enemies demands clean inputs

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Quake II

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Raptor: Call of the Shadows