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IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of PreyvsIt Takes Two

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); It Takes Two leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of PreyIt Takes Two

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey leans harder on execution: Stick control, gunnery leads and energy handling decide dogfights

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

It Takes Two leans harder on variance: Puzzle solutions are fixed; little hidden randomness

Optimization5 vs 5

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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IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey

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It Takes Two