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Battlefield 3vsFIFA World

Battlefield 3 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); FIFA World leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Battlefield 3FIFA World

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Battlefield 3 leans harder on execution: Gunplay, suppression management, and vehicle piloting

Reads5 vs 6

FIFA World leans harder on reads: Online humans feint, bait tackles and adapt formations constantly

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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