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Middle-earth: Shadow of War cover artvsTiny Tina's Wonderlands cover art

Middle-earth: Shadow of WarvsTiny Tina's Wonderlands

Middle-earth: Shadow of War leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Tiny Tina's Wonderlands leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Middle-earth: Shadow of WarTiny Tina's Wonderlands

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands leans harder on execution: Gunplay similar to Borderlands 3

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 6

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands leans harder on variance: Loot rolls and Chaos Chamber RNG

Optimization7 vs 8

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands leans harder on optimization: Dual classes and spell builds deep

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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Middle-earth: Shadow of War

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Tiny Tina's Wonderlands