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Call of Duty: Black Ops III cover artvsNew World: Aeternum cover art

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIIvsNew World: Aeternum

Call of Duty: Black Ops III leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); New World: Aeternum leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Call of Duty: Black Ops IIINew World: Aeternum

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Call of Duty: Black Ops III leans harder on execution: Thrust-jumps and wall-runs reward mechanical mastery

Reads4 vs 4

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

New World: Aeternum leans harder on optimization: Weapon mastery and territory control strategies are systematically solvable

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 III

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New World: Aeternum