head to head
Arsenal Club Football asks more than Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and the gap is execution.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A licensed football simulation centered on Arsenal FC.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
A sprawling open-world crime epic with RPG-style character stats across a whole state.
Arsenal Club Football leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Arsenal Club Football leans clearly harder on execution.
Arsenal Club Football
dribbling and shooting precision
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Flying school and drive-bys need decent hands
Arsenal Club Football leans clearly harder on reads.
Arsenal Club Football
human opponents allow light prediction
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Gang AI is scripted, never adaptive
Arsenal Club Football leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Arsenal Club Football
match physics randomness
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Territory wars and traffic add light randomness
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Arsenal Club Football
tactics and squad management
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Stats, gym, weapon skill, and routes reward systematic play
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.