head to head
vs
Descent IIvsSniper: Ghost Warrior
Descent II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sniper: Ghost Warrior leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Descent IISniper: Ghost Warrior
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Descent II leans harder on execution: Six-degrees-of-freedom dogfighting demands serious spatial control
Reads2 vs 1
Descent II leans harder on reads: Robots are scripted; multiplayer duels add light prediction
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.