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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 cover artvsUnreal Tournament 2004 cover art

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2vsUnreal Tournament 2004

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Unreal Tournament 2004 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2Unreal Tournament 2004

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Unreal Tournament 2004 leans harder on execution: Aimbot plus perfect dodging trivializes arena duels

Reads6 vs 6

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

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

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Unreal Tournament 2004