head to head
vs
Assassin's Creed III: LiberationvsCaptain Blood
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Captain Blood leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Assassin's Creed III: LiberationCaptain Blood
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 2
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation leans harder on execution: Lenient parkour and counter combat set a low ceiling
Reads1 vs 3
Captain Blood leans harder on reads: Alien characters follow scripted logic, not adaptive modelling
Variance2 vs 4
Captain Blood leans harder on variance: Hidden clone locations create exploratory uncertainty
Optimization6 vs 6
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.