head to head
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening asks more than Red Dead Redemption 2, and the gap is execution.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
The stylish-action benchmark where mastering styles, weapons, and Vergil's blade is the whole point.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A cinematic open-world western leaning on shooting feel and atmosphere.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening leans clearly harder on execution.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Style-switch combos and Royal Guard timing are an execution Everest
Red Dead Redemption 2
Gunplay and Dead Eye reward aim and timing.
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Vergil is a hard script, not an adapting mind
Red Dead Redemption 2
Enemies use scripted AI patterns, not adaptation.
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Fixed tower; knowledge carries between runs
Red Dead Redemption 2
Some hunting and weather randomness, lightly hidden.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening leans clearly harder on optimization.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Style choice, weapon loadouts, and boss patterns reward labbing
Red Dead Redemption 2
Loadouts and routes solvable but loose.
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.