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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas cover artvsTenchu: Stealth Assassins cover art

Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasvsTenchu: Stealth Assassins

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Tenchu: Stealth Assassins leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasTenchu: Stealth Assassins

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins leans harder on execution: Grapple movement and stealth-kill timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins leans harder on optimization: Guard routes and Grand Master paths solvable

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: San Andreas

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Tenchu: Stealth Assassins