Building comparison
head to head
Far Cry 4vsMetal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes asks more than Far Cry 4, and the gap is optimization.
Far Cry 4
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A Himalayan open-world shooter refining the outpost-clearing formula.
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Optimization · Pure Optimization
The GameCube remake of Metal Gear Solid, a scripted stealth gauntlet that rewards memorized routes.
Far Cry 4 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Far Cry 4Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Far Cry 4 leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Far Cry 4
Gunplay plus gyrocopter and elephant chaos
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Boss fights and first-person aiming demand decent hands.
Reads0 vs 1
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Far Cry 4
Scripted outpost AI
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Psycho Mantis only pretends to read you; all scripted.
Variance2 vs 2
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Far Cry 4
Wildlife and patrol variation
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Famous tricks are unknown once, then known forever.
Optimization6 vs 8
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes leans clearly harder on optimization.
Far Cry 4
Outpost approaches and skill trees are plannable
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Patrol routes and boss patterns converge to a solved run.
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.