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Assassin's Creed Brotherhood cover artvsBatman: Arkham City cover art

Assassin's Creed BrotherhoodvsBatman: Arkham City

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Batman: Arkham City leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Batman: Arkham City leans harder on execution: Combo chains and counters need timing.

Reads2 vs 1

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood leans harder on reads: Hide-and-hunt multiplayer ran on human mind-games

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

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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