head to head
vs
Far Cry 4vsMetal Gear
Far Cry 4 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Metal Gear leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Far Cry 4Metal Gear
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 4
Far Cry 4 leans harder on execution: Gunplay plus gyrocopter and elephant chaos
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Metal Gear leans harder on variance: traps and item locations unknown first time
Optimization6 vs 7
Metal Gear leans harder on optimization: route and key-item knowledge trivializes replays
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.