head to head
Mothergunship asks more than Red Dead Redemption 2, and the gap is variance.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Bullet-hell dodging fed by a solvable gun-crafting system across random rooms.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A cinematic open-world western leaning on shooting feel and atmosphere.
Mothergunship leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Mothergunship leans clearly harder on execution.
Mothergunship
Dodging bullet-hell rooms while jumping demands real twitch skill
Red Dead Redemption 2
Gunplay and Dead Eye reward aim and timing.
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Mothergunship
Robots follow fixed firing scripts with no adaptation
Red Dead Redemption 2
Enemies use scripted AI patterns, not adaptation.
Mothergunship leans clearly harder on variance.
Mothergunship
Randomised rooms and shop offers shape every run
Red Dead Redemption 2
Some hunting and weather randomness, lightly hidden.
Mothergunship leans clearly harder on optimization.
Mothergunship
Gun-crafting combinations are a solvable engineering puzzle
Red Dead Redemption 2
Loadouts and routes solvable but loose.
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.