Building comparison
head to head
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign RemasteredvsRed Dead Redemption 2
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Aim and spawn memorisation through a fully scripted cinematic campaign.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A cinematic open-world western leaning on shooting feel and atmosphere.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign RemasteredRed Dead Redemption 2
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Aim and reaction carry every scripted firefight
Red Dead Redemption 2
Gunplay and Dead Eye reward aim and timing.
Reads0 vs 1
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Enemies spawn and behave on fixed scripts
Red Dead Redemption 2
Enemies use scripted AI patterns, not adaptation.
Variance1 vs 2
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Set-piece campaign with almost nothing random
Red Dead Redemption 2
Some hunting and weather randomness, lightly hidden.
Optimization4 vs 4
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Learning spawns and cover lines trivialises veteran difficulty
Red Dead Redemption 2
Loadouts and routes solvable but loose.
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.
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