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Gears 5 cover artvsGears of War: Ultimate Edition cover art

Gears 5vsGears of War: Ultimate Edition

Gears 5 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Gears of War: Ultimate Edition leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Gears 5Gears of War: Ultimate Edition

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads4 vs 5

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition leans harder on reads: Multiplayer is constant positional mind-games around cover

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Gears 5 leans harder on optimization: Character ultimates and map control are learnable

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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