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Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 cover artvsFar Cry 3 cover art

Dead or Alive Xtreme 2vsFar Cry 3

Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Far Cry 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Dead or Alive Xtreme 2Far Cry 3

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Far Cry 3 leans harder on execution: Shooting and stealth fundamentals matter.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 leans harder on variance: Gift preferences and minigame outcomes add light chance

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.

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Dead or Alive Xtreme 2

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