head to head
vs
Blake Stone: Aliens of GoldvsGrand Theft Auto IV
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Grand Theft Auto IV leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Blake Stone: Aliens of GoldGrand Theft Auto IV
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold leans harder on execution: aim and movement in early FPS combat
Reads0 vs 1
Grand Theft Auto IV leans harder on reads: Scripted AI, no adaptive opponent modeling.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization3 vs 3
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.