head to head
vs
Call of Duty 3vsNBA Street
Call of Duty 3 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); NBA Street leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Call of Duty 3NBA Street
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads3 vs 3
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 1
Call of Duty 3 leans harder on variance: Scripted setpieces and spawn flow add minor unknowns
Optimization3 vs 4
NBA Street leans harder on optimization: Trick-point economy and Gamebreaker management are the meta
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.