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Dragon Ball: Xenoverse leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Gears of War 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Gears of War 2 leans harder on execution: Gnasher battles and movement tech set the ceiling

Reads4 vs 4

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

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.

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Dragon Ball: Xenoverse

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