Building comparison
head to head
Assassin's Creed SyndicatevsMafia III
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Twin assassins seize Victorian London borough by borough with gang warfare and a rope launcher.
Mafia III
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Revenge-driven open-worlder dismantling a sixties crime empire district by district.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Mafia III leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Assassin's Creed SyndicateMafia III
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Rope-launcher traversal and simple brawling
Mafia III
Stealth takedowns and gunfights
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Gangs are scripted
Mafia III
Racket guards follow fixed AI
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Fixed activities
Mafia III
Open world is static
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Gang upgrades and borough takeover planning
Mafia III
District takeover loop and underboss assignments
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.