head to head
vs
Desperados IIIvsDeus Ex: Human Revolution
Desperados III leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Deus Ex: Human Revolution leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Desperados IIIDeus Ex: Human Revolution
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Desperados III leans harder on execution: Simultaneous pause-and-execute actions demand precise timing coordination
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 2
Desperados III leans harder on variance: Guard patrol overlap creates some hidden-state uncertainty early on
Optimization8 vs 8
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.