head to head
vs
Hitman: Blood MoneyvsOrcs Must Die!
Hitman: Blood Money leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Orcs Must Die! leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Hitman: Blood MoneyOrcs Must Die!
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 4
Orcs Must Die! leans harder on execution: Active shooting supplements the traps
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization9 vs 8
Hitman: Blood Money leans harder on optimization: Accident-kill routing is a near-solvable planning puzzle
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.