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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 cover artvsQuake III Arena cover art

Battlefield: Bad Company 2vsQuake III Arena

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Quake III Arena leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Battlefield: Bad Company 2Quake III Arena

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Quake III Arena leans harder on execution: Rail and rocket aim at speed is the entire game

Reads6 vs 6

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

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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