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Assassin's Creed III: Liberation cover artvsHard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel cover art

Assassin's Creed III: LiberationvsHard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Assassin's Creed III: LiberationHard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel leans harder on execution: truck driving precision and handling

Reads1 vs 0

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation leans harder on reads: Guards follow patrol scripts without adapting

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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.

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Assassin's Creed III: Liberation

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Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel