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Skate 2 cover artvsVice: Project Doom cover art

Skate 2vsVice: Project Doom

Skate 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Vice: Project Doom leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Skate 2Vice: Project Doom

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Skate 2 leans harder on execution: Flick-it stick controls map tricks to genuine manual dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

Vice: Project Doom leans harder on optimization: Learning stage layouts and weapon use converges runs quickly

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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Vice: Project Doom