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FIFA Soccer 10 cover artvsQuake 4 cover art

FIFA Soccer 10vsQuake 4

FIFA Soccer 10 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Quake 4 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
FIFA Soccer 10Quake 4

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Quake 4 leans harder on execution: Aimbot plus strafe-jump inputs dominate both campaign and multiplayer

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

FIFA Soccer 10 leans harder on variance: Deflections and keeper randomness swing tight matches

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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