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FIFA Soccer 07vsMario Tennis: Ultra Smash

FIFA Soccer 07 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION6 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

FIFA Soccer 07 leans harder on variance: Deflections and keeper randomness swing single matches

Optimization4 vs 3

FIFA Soccer 07 leans harder on optimization: Formations and exploit patterns are learnable meta

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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