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Air-Sea Battle cover artvsUncharted 4: A Thief's End cover art

Air-Sea BattlevsUncharted 4: A Thief's End

Air-Sea Battle leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Uncharted 4: A Thief's End leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Air-Sea BattleUncharted 4: A Thief's End

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 3

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End leans harder on optimization: Few systems to optimize beyond difficulty.

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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Uncharted 4: A Thief's End