head to head
vs
Devil May Cry 2vsGrand Theft Auto: Vice City
Devil May Cry 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Grand Theft Auto: Vice City leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Devil May Cry 2Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 4
Devil May Cry 2 leans harder on execution: Infamously easy; guns trivialize most encounters
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City leans harder on variance: Ambient chaos mildly varies mission attempts
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.