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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain cover artvsTom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield cover art

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainvsTom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainTom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield leans harder on execution: One-shot lethality demands careful, accurate shooting

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield leans harder on variance: Unknown enemy positions drive the tension

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 V: The Phantom Pain

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield