head to head

Air-Sea Battle cover artvsTomb Raider (2013) cover art

Air-Sea BattlevsTomb Raider (2013)

Air-Sea Battle leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Tomb Raider (2013) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Air-Sea BattleTomb Raider (2013)

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Air-Sea Battle leans harder on execution: Timing shots on moving targets is the entire game

Reads2 vs 1

Air-Sea Battle leans harder on reads: Head-to-head play adds slight outguessing of the other gunner

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 4

Tomb Raider (2013) leans harder on optimization: Weapon upgrades and skill picks straightforward.

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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