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Call of Duty: Black Ops II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); UFC Undisputed 3 leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION8 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Call of Duty: Black Ops IIUFC Undisputed 3

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 2

Call of Duty: Black Ops II leans harder on variance: Spawn flips and scorestreak chaos 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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UFC Undisputed 3