head to head
vs
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake EatervsNCAA College Football 2K3
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); NCAA College Football 2K3 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake EaterNCAA College Football 2K3
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 2
NCAA College Football 2K3 leans harder on reads: scripted CPU defense, not adaptive
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization8 vs 7
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater leans harder on optimization: Camo pattern matching and boss moveset mastery are fully learnable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.