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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag cover artvsInfinity Blade III cover art

Assassin's Creed IV: Black FlagvsInfinity Blade III

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Infinity Blade III leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Assassin's Creed IV: Black FlagInfinity Blade III

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 1

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag leans harder on reads: Multiplayer deception mode; campaign is scripted

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Infinity Blade III leans harder on optimization: gear grinding and stat optimization

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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