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Shadow Warrior 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Warhammer: Vermintide 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Shadow Warrior 2 leans harder on execution: Fast melee and gun chains demand sustained precise input execution

Reads0 vs 2

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 leans harder on reads: Specials are scripted, not adaptive

Variance5 vs 5

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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