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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain cover artvsMount & Blade II: Bannerlord cover art

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainvsMount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION5 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainMount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 8

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord leans harder on optimization: Economy, army composition, and kingdom management dominate

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 V: The Phantom Pain

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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord