head to head
vs
Call of DutyvsNBA Live 98
Call of Duty leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); NBA Live 98 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Call of DutyNBA Live 98
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 98 leans harder on reads: Versus humans, baiting defensive commitments matters; CPU is exploitable
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.