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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock cover artvsRocksmith 2014 Edition: Remastered cover art

Guitar Hero III: Legends of RockvsRocksmith 2014 Edition: Remastered

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Rocksmith 2014 Edition: Remastered leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION10 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Guitar Hero III: Legends of RockRocksmith 2014 Edition: Remastered

Axis by axis

Execution10 vs 9

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 1

Rocksmith 2014 Edition: Remastered leans harder on variance: negligible randomness

Optimization2 vs 2

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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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

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Rocksmith 2014 Edition: Remastered