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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 cover artvsStreet Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams cover art

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3vsStreet Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams leans harder on execution: Motion inputs, links and Alpha Counters demand clean hands

Reads6 vs 7

Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams leans harder on reads: Footsies and throw mix-ups against a human are the heart

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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Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams