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Army of Two cover artvsFar Cry 4 cover art

Army of TwovsFar Cry 4

Army of Two leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Far Cry 4 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Army of TwoFar Cry 4

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Far Cry 4 leans harder on execution: Gunplay plus gyrocopter and elephant chaos

Reads1 vs 0

Army of Two leans harder on reads: Aggro system is mappable, not adaptive

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 6

Far Cry 4 leans harder on optimization: Outpost approaches and skill trees are plannable

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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