head to head
Metroid Prime Hunters asks more than Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, and the gap is reads.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Frozen-planet shooter about managing heat while gunning down giant bugs.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A DS first-person shooter pairing a Metroid campaign with surprisingly competitive online deathmatch.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Metroid Prime Hunters leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Metroid Prime Hunters leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Grapple movement and Akrid weak-point shooting
Metroid Prime Hunters
Stylus aiming on DS is a real physical ceiling
Metroid Prime Hunters leans clearly harder on reads.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Multiplayer modes add some mind games
Metroid Prime Hunters
Online deathmatch rewards out-predicting human hunters
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Campaign encounters are fixed
Metroid Prime Hunters
Maps and pickups are fixed
Metroid Prime Hunters leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Thermal energy management and boss weak points
Metroid Prime Hunters
Hunter matchups, map control, and pickup timing
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.