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Battlefield: Bad Company cover artvsCall of Duty: World at War cover art

Battlefield: Bad CompanyvsCall of Duty: World at War

Battlefield: Bad Company leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Call of Duty: World at War leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Battlefield: Bad CompanyCall of Duty: World at War

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Call of Duty: World at War leans harder on execution: Twitch gunfights in fast multiplayer lobbies

Reads4 vs 3

Battlefield: Bad Company leans harder on reads: Predicting human squad pushes on objectives

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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Battlefield: Bad Company

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Call of Duty: World at War