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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising cover artvsTom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 cover art

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon RisingvsTom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon RisingTom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

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Execution6 vs 7

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 leans harder on execution: Cover-based gunfights still punish poor aim

Reads2 vs 3

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 leans harder on reads: Multiplayer brings some human adaptation; AI is scripted

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2