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Grand Theft Auto VvsMario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Grand Theft Auto V leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).
Grand Theft Auto VMario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads2 vs 2
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games leans harder on variance: Minigame gimmicks and items inject party randomness
Optimization4 vs 3
Grand Theft Auto V leans harder on optimization: Heists, money loops, builds 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.