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Gears of War 2 cover artvsReal Soccer 2009 cover art

Gears of War 2vsReal Soccer 2009

Gears of War 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Real Soccer 2009 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Gears of War 2Real Soccer 2009

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads4 vs 3

Gears of War 2 leans harder on reads: Human opponents in versus drive prediction play

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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Gears of War 2

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Real Soccer 2009