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Century: Age of Ashes cover artvsGears 5 cover art

Century: Age of AshesvsGears 5

Century: Age of Ashes leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Gears 5 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Century: Age of AshesGears 5

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads6 vs 4

Century: Age of Ashes leans harder on reads: Human riders feint, juke and adapt to your habits

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

Gears 5 leans harder on optimization: Character ultimates and map control are learnable

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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