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Guild Wars 2 cover artvsNFL 2010 cover art

Guild Wars 2vsNFL 2010

Guild Wars 2 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); NFL 2010 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Guild Wars 2NFL 2010

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads4 vs 3

Guild Wars 2 leans harder on reads: WvW and structured PvP feature real adaptive opponents

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

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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Guild Wars 2

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