head to head
vs
Assassin's Creed: Liberation HDvsMafia II
Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Mafia II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Assassin's Creed: Liberation HDMafia II
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 4
Mafia II leans harder on execution: Cover shooting and fistfight timing
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 4
Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD leans harder on optimization: Persona system and stealth routing are the real layer
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.