head to head
vs
Serious Sam: The First EncountervsTotal Carnage
Serious Sam: The First Encounter leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Total Carnage leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Serious Sam: The First EncounterTotal Carnage
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Total Carnage leans harder on variance: Enemy spawns add some randomness
Optimization4 vs 3
Serious Sam: The First Encounter leans harder on optimization: Enemy priority and positioning strategy are learnable but shallow
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.