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Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence cover artvsSplinter Cell: Blacklist cover art

Metal Gear Solid 3: SubsistencevsSplinter Cell: Blacklist

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Splinter Cell: Blacklist leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Metal Gear Solid 3: SubsistenceSplinter Cell: Blacklist

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Splinter Cell: Blacklist leans harder on execution: Mark-and-execute and fast takedowns raise the physical ceiling

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

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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Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence

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Splinter Cell: Blacklist