head to head
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is reads, and it is a single point.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A modern Gears entry spanning campaign, Horde, Escape, and ranked versus.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A licensed football simulation following the UEFA Champions League.
Gears 5 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); UEFA Champions League Season 2001/2002 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Gears 5
Movement tech and shotgun duels remain the core test
UEFA Champions League Season 2001/2002
dribbling and shooting precision
Gears 5 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Gears 5
Ranked versus rewards out-thinking human opponents
UEFA Champions League Season 2001/2002
human opponents allow light prediction
UEFA Champions League Season 2001/2002 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Gears 5
Escape and Horde inject some run variance
UEFA Champions League Season 2001/2002
match physics randomness
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Gears 5
Character ultimates and map control are learnable
UEFA Champions League Season 2001/2002
tactics and squad management
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.