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Grand Theft Auto V leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Grand Theft Auto VMario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter 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 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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.

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Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games