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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora cover artvsRed Dead Redemption 2 cover art

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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Red Dead Redemption 2 leans harder on execution: Gunplay and Dead Eye reward aim and timing.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora leans harder on optimization: Cooking, gear, and traversal routes solvable.

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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