head to head
Grand Theft Auto IVvsTrue Crime: Streets of LA
Grand Theft Auto IV leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); True Crime: Streets of LA leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Grand Theft Auto IVTrue Crime: Streets of LA
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 0
Grand Theft Auto IV leans harder on reads: Scripted AI, no adaptive opponent modeling.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization3 vs 4
True Crime: Streets of LA leans harder on optimization: Branching missions and upgrade routes 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.

