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FIFA Soccer 11 cover artvsPro Evolution Soccer 2008 cover art

FIFA Soccer 11vsPro Evolution Soccer 2008

FIFA Soccer 11 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION6 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
FIFA Soccer 11Pro Evolution Soccer 2008

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 2

FIFA Soccer 11 leans harder on variance: Deflections and keeper behaviour add bounded chaos

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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FIFA Soccer 11

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Pro Evolution Soccer 2008