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PlanetSide 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads4 vs 5

Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville leans harder on reads: predicting human opponents' pushes and flanks

Variance3 vs 2

PlanetSide 2 leans harder on variance: Massive battles produce constant chaos

Optimization5 vs 5

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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