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Spider-Man cover artvsThe Beatles: Rock Band cover art

Spider-ManvsThe Beatles: Rock Band

Spider-Man leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The Beatles: Rock Band leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Spider-ManThe Beatles: Rock Band

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

Spider-Man leans harder on variance: Level events are scripted and quickly known

Optimization4 vs 3

Spider-Man leans harder on optimization: Boss patterns and level routes are fully learnable

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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The Beatles: Rock Band