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Medal of Honor: Frontline cover artvsThe Last of Us cover art

Medal of Honor: FrontlinevsThe Last of Us

Medal of Honor: Frontline leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Last of Us leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Medal of Honor: FrontlineThe Last of Us

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

The Last of Us leans harder on reads: Enemy AI searches but follows mappable routines

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Medal of Honor: Frontline leans harder on optimization: Memorising spawns and routes trivialises missions

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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Medal of Honor: Frontline

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The Last of Us