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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock cover artvsTrack & Field cover art

Guitar Hero III: Legends of RockvsTrack & Field

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Track & Field leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION10 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Guitar Hero III: Legends of RockTrack & Field

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 0

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 3

Track & Field leans harder on optimization: Optimal angles per event are quickly solved.

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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