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Perfect Dark leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 6

Perfect Dark leans harder on execution: N64 manual aim and tight mission play

Reads3 vs 4

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare leans harder on reads: Human opponents flank and juke in class-based skirmishes

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Perfect Dark leans harder on optimization: Objective routing on harder difficulty tiers

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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