Building comparison
head to head
Army of Two: The Devil's CartelvsTomb Raider (2013)
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is reads, and it is a single point.
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Straightforward cover-shooting aim against fully scripted enemy waves.
Tomb Raider (2013)
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Lara's reboot blending cover shooting, climbing, and survival cinema.
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tomb Raider (2013) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Army of Two: The Devil's CartelTomb Raider (2013)
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel
Cover shooting rewards decent aim, nothing more
Tomb Raider (2013)
Bow aim, QTEs, and platforming timing matter.
Reads0 vs 1
Tomb Raider (2013) leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel
Cartel enemies follow scripted cover AI
Tomb Raider (2013)
Scripted enemy waves, no adaptation.
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel
Encounters replay identically
Tomb Raider (2013)
Minimal randomness in encounters.
Optimization3 vs 4
Tomb Raider (2013) leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel
Weapon customization adds light loadout math
Tomb Raider (2013)
Weapon upgrades and skill picks straightforward.
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.
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