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Battlefield: Bad CompanyvsPlants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Battlefield: Bad Company leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

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 4

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Battlefield: Bad Company leans harder on variance: Destruction and large lobbies create chaos

Optimization5 vs 4

Battlefield: Bad Company leans harder on optimization: Class roles and objective flow are learnable

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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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare