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NCAA Football 11 cover artvsSupreme Commander cover art

NCAA Football 11vsSupreme Commander

NCAA Football 11 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Supreme Commander leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION5 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
NCAA Football 11Supreme Commander

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 8

Supreme Commander leans harder on optimization: Streaming economy and build-order efficiency are the backbone

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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