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Metal Gear Solid: Portable OpsvsTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Metal Gear Solid: Portable OpsTom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 6

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops leans harder on optimization: Squad recruitment and mission routing are solvable systems.

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: Portable Ops

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands