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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater leans harder on execution: CQC execution, camouflage switching speed, and boss timing are demanding

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands leans harder on variance: Patrol spawns and reinforcements add mild unpredictability

Optimization8 vs 6

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.

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