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Call of Duty: Black Ops II cover artvsStalcraft: X cover art

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIvsStalcraft: X

Call of Duty: Black Ops II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Stalcraft: X leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION8 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Call of Duty: Black Ops IIStalcraft: X

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Call of Duty: Black Ops II leans harder on execution: Snap aim and movement speed decide split-second gunfights

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Stalcraft: X leans harder on variance: Anomalies, artifact spawns and who you meet inject randomness

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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Call of Duty: Black Ops II

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Stalcraft: X