head to head
vs
Dead HordevsRed Dead Redemption 2
Dead Horde leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Dead HordeRed Dead Redemption 2
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Dead Horde leans harder on execution: Top-down aiming against mutant swarms is core
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 2
Dead Horde leans harder on variance: Spawn directions add some unpredictability
Optimization4 vs 4
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.