Building comparison
head to head
Commandos 2: Men of CouragevsHitman: Blood Money
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Deeper sequel turning occupied-Europe missions into intricate solvable stealth puzzles.
Hitman: Blood Money
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Sandbox assassination at its purest: stage the perfect accident and walk away.
Commandos 2: Men of Courage leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Hitman: Blood Money leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Commandos 2: Men of CourageHitman: Blood Money
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 3
Commandos 2: Men of Courage leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Multi-commando coordination under timing windows
Hitman: Blood Money
Modest aim and sneak demands once a plan exists
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Scripted patrols with no adaptation
Hitman: Blood Money
Crowds and guards run fixed routines
Variance1 vs 2
Hitman: Blood Money leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Vision cones shown; layouts fixed
Hitman: Blood Money
Accident opportunities hidden until discovered
Optimization9 vs 9
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Open-ended missions still reduce to solved routes
Hitman: Blood Money
Accident-kill routing is a near-solvable planning puzzle
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.