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Grand Theft Auto IV cover artvsTrue Crime: Streets of LA cover art

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).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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.

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Grand Theft Auto IV

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True Crime: Streets of LA