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Call of Duty cover artvsNBA Live 2005 cover art

Call of DutyvsNBA Live 2005

Call of Duty leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); NBA Live 2005 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Call of DutyNBA Live 2005

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Call of Duty leans harder on execution: Aim and reaction carry the scripted firefights

Reads3 vs 4

NBA Live 2005 leans harder on reads: Versus humans, baiting defensive commitments matters

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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 →

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NBA Live 2005 →