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Battlefield 4vsMadden Football 64

Battlefield 4 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Madden Football 64 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Battlefield 4Madden Football 64

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Battlefield 4 leans harder on execution: Gunplay, vehicle mastery, and movement under fire

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Madden Football 64 leans harder on optimization: Playbook, audibles and roster tactics run deep

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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