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Medal of Honor: Underground cover artvsRed Dead Redemption cover art

Medal of Honor: UndergroundvsRed Dead Redemption

Medal of Honor: Underground leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Medal of Honor: UndergroundRed Dead Redemption

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Red Dead Redemption leans harder on reads: Multiplayer skirmishes add light human prediction

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Medal of Honor: Underground leans harder on optimization: Objective routing and patrol knowledge solve levels

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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