head to head

Freedom Fighters cover artvsMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2000 cover art

Freedom FightersvsMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2000

Freedom Fighters leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Freedom FightersMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2000

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

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 6

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 leans harder on optimization: Procedures, navigation and instrument flying are learnable rule 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.

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