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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 cover artvsOverwatch: Legendary Edition cover art

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2vsOverwatch: Legendary Edition

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Overwatch: Legendary Edition leans Execution (Grand Arena).

EXECUTION8 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2Overwatch: Legendary Edition

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads6 vs 7

Overwatch: Legendary Edition leans harder on reads: Tracking enemy ultimates and flanker habits is constant prediction

Variance3 vs 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 leans harder on variance: Spawn flips and killstreak randomness

Optimization5 vs 6

Overwatch: Legendary Edition leans harder on optimization: Team compositions and ult economy are deeply 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: Modern Warfare 2

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Overwatch: Legendary Edition