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Assassin's Creed III: Liberation cover artvsDragon Age: Inquisition cover art

Assassin's Creed III: LiberationvsDragon Age: Inquisition

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Dragon Age: Inquisition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Assassin's Creed III: LiberationDragon Age: Inquisition

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation leans harder on execution: Lenient parkour and counter combat set a low ceiling

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Dragon Age: Inquisition leans harder on optimization: Crafting, specialization, war table planning

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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Assassin's Creed III: Liberation

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Dragon Age: Inquisition