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Quake III ArenavsWolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Quake III Arena leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION9 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Quake III ArenaWolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 8

Quake III Arena leans harder on execution: Rail and rocket aim at speed is the entire game

Reads6 vs 6

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

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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