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Guitar Hero Live cover artvsRock Band 2 cover art

Guitar Hero LivevsRock Band 2

Guitar Hero Live leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Rock Band 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Guitar Hero LiveRock Band 2

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 8

Guitar Hero Live leans harder on execution: Hitting six-button note charts at speed is everything

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 0

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 4

Rock Band 2 leans harder on optimization: Overdrive activation paths decide leaderboard scores

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 Live

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Rock Band 2