head to head
vs
Intravenous 2vsMount & Blade: Warband
Intravenous 2 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Mount & Blade: Warband leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Intravenous 2Mount & Blade: Warband
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Intravenous 2 leans harder on execution: Improved gunfeel raises the combat ceiling over the original
Reads1 vs 2
Mount & Blade: Warband leans harder on reads: Multiplayer melee involves human feint-reading
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization8 vs 8
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.