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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Fight Night Champion leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3Fight Night Champion

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads6 vs 7

Fight Night Champion leans harder on reads: Boxing humans is feint-and-counter prediction

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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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