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Gears of War 4 cover artvsTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 cover art

Gears of War 4vsTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

Gears of War 4 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Gears of War 4Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Gears of War 4 leans harder on execution: aim and cover timing decide fights

Reads4 vs 4

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 leans harder on variance: Unknown enemy placements punish first attempts

Optimization6 vs 6

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 4

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2