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Call of Duty: Black Ops cover artvsQuake III Arena cover art

Call of Duty: Black OpsvsQuake III Arena

Call of Duty: Black Ops leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Quake III Arena leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Call of Duty: Black OpsQuake III Arena

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Quake III Arena leans harder on execution: Rail and rocket aim at speed is the entire game

Reads6 vs 6

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Call of Duty: Black Ops leans harder on variance: Spawns, care packages, zombies RNG

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

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