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Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s cover artvsGuitar Hero III: Legends of Rock cover art

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80svsGuitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80sGuitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 10

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock leans harder on execution: Through the Fire and Flames defines a hands ceiling

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 0

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 2

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s leans harder on optimization: Star power pathing squeezes out extra score

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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Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s

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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock