head to head
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainvsTom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainTom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 6
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 leans harder on execution: Accurate shooting under lethal fire decides firefights
Reads2 vs 3
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 leans harder on reads: Multiplayer adds human prediction; campaign AI follows scripts
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 5
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain leans harder on optimization: Mother Base, loadouts, fulton economy deeply solvable.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

