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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Return to Castle Wolfenstein leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads6 vs 5

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 leans harder on reads: Destruction and flanks punish positional reads

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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