head to head
vs
Into the Dead 2vsMiddle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Into the Dead 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Into the Dead 2Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Into the Dead 2 leans harder on execution: Steering and aiming while auto-running drives survival
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 4
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 6
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor leans harder on optimization: Intel gathering and exploiting known weaknesses solves fights
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.