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Assassin's Creed III: Liberation cover artvsSWAT 4 cover art

Assassin's Creed III: LiberationvsSWAT 4

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); SWAT 4 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Assassin's Creed III: LiberationSWAT 4

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

SWAT 4 leans harder on execution: precise aim and careful movement required

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

SWAT 4 leans harder on variance: suspect placement and behavior randomized

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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