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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 cover artvsSamurai Shodown III cover art

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3vsSamurai Shodown III

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Samurai Shodown III leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3Samurai Shodown III

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Samurai Shodown III leans harder on execution: precise weapon timing and spacing execution

Reads6 vs 6

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

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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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

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Samurai Shodown III