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Sam & Max: Hit the Road cover artvsZack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure cover art

Sam & Max: Hit the RoadvsZack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

Sam & Max: Hit the Road leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Sam & Max: Hit the RoadZack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 2

Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure leans harder on execution: Wii motion gestures occasionally demand precision

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 8

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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Sam & Max: Hit the Road

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Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure