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Far Cry 3 cover artvsMedal of Honor: Pacific Assault cover art

Far Cry 3vsMedal of Honor: Pacific Assault

Far Cry 3 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Far Cry 3Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Far Cry 3 leans harder on reads: Pirate AI uses fixed alert patterns.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault leans harder on optimization: Health-medic economy and routes are learnable

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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Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault