Building comparison
head to head
Grand Theft Auto VvsSpider-Man 2
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Grand Theft Auto V
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Sandbox crime playground spanning shooting, driving, and a persistent online economy.
Spider-Man 2
Execution · Practiced Mastery
An open-world superhero action game built on fluid traversal and combat.
Grand Theft Auto V leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Spider-Man 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Grand Theft Auto VSpider-Man 2
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 6
Spider-Man 2 leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Grand Theft Auto V
Driving and shooting demand decent inputs.
Spider-Man 2
web-swinging and combat timing precision
Reads2 vs 1
Grand Theft Auto V leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Grand Theft Auto V
Online PvP exists but mostly gear/positioning, not modeling.
Spider-Man 2
scripted villains, no adaptation
Variance2 vs 1
Grand Theft Auto V leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Grand Theft Auto V
Some mission and lobby randomness.
Spider-Man 2
minimal randomness in encounters
Optimization4 vs 5
Spider-Man 2 leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Grand Theft Auto V
Heists, money loops, builds learnable.
Spider-Man 2
gadget and skill tree optimization
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.