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Just Cause 2 cover artvsMafia III cover art

Just Cause 2vsMafia III

Just Cause 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mafia III leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Just Cause 2Mafia III

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Just Cause 2 leans harder on variance: Sandbox chaos varies moment to moment

Optimization4 vs 5

Mafia III leans harder on optimization: District takeover loop and underboss assignments

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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