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Guitar Hero: Metallica cover artvsRock Band 2 cover art

Guitar Hero: MetallicavsRock Band 2

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

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Guitar Hero: MetallicaRock Band 2

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 8

Guitar Hero: Metallica leans harder on execution: Metallica's thrash charts are an endurance gauntlet

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 0

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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: Metallica

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Rock Band 2