head to head
vs
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake EatervsPayday 2: Crimewave Edition
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Payday 2: Crimewave Edition leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake EaterPayday 2: Crimewave Edition
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Payday 2: Crimewave Edition leans harder on variance: Randomised guard routes and loot locations shuffle each heist
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.