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Grand Theft Auto IVvsKinect Sports: Season Two

Grand Theft Auto IV leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Kinect Sports: Season Two leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Grand Theft Auto IVKinect Sports: Season Two

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Kinect Sports: Season Two leans harder on execution: Full-body motion timing is the entire skill surface

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 2

Grand Theft Auto IV leans harder on optimization: Mission routing and weapon picks 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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Kinect Sports: Season Two