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Gears 5 cover artvsTribes: Vengeance cover art

Gears 5vsTribes: Vengeance

Gears 5 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tribes: Vengeance leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Gears 5Tribes: Vengeance

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Tribes: Vengeance leans harder on execution: Skiing momentum and mid-air disc shots have a brutal ceiling

Reads4 vs 5

Tribes: Vengeance leans harder on reads: Predicting enemy capper routes and duel jukes is constant

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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Tribes: Vengeance