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Spider-Man: Web of Shadows cover artvsSuper Mario 64 cover art

Spider-Man: Web of ShadowsvsSuper Mario 64

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario 64 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Spider-Man: Web of ShadowsSuper Mario 64

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Super Mario 64 leans harder on execution: Perfect analog inputs trivialise precise jumps, dives and wall-kicks

Reads1 vs 0

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows leans harder on reads: Symbiote hordes attack on fixed scripts

Variance1 vs 1

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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Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

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Super Mario 64