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FIFA Soccer 11vsNHL 2005
FIFA Soccer 11 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); NHL 2005 leans Execution (Competitive PvP).
FIFA Soccer 11NHL 2005
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads6 vs 5
FIFA Soccer 11 leans harder on reads: Human opponents' defensive habits and attacking patterns must be modelled
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization4 vs 5
NHL 2005 leans harder on optimization: Line matching and proven scoring plays are learnable systems
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.