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Halo: ReachvsTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Halo: Reach leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Halo: ReachTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Halo: Reach leans harder on execution: DMR precision and armour-ability timing

Reads4 vs 4

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter leans harder on optimization: Drone recon, squad orders and approach planning decide missions

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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