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Battlefield: Bad Company leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Kirby Air Riders leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads4 vs 3

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

Variance3 vs 4

Kirby Air Riders leans harder on variance: Item rolls and event randomness shake up placements

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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