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Freedom Fighters leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Manhunt leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Freedom Fighters leans harder on execution: Third-person gunplay and squad command under fire

Reads1 vs 0

Freedom Fighters leans harder on reads: Soviet AI is scripted, not adaptive

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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