head to head
Target Earth asks more than Red Dead Redemption 2, and the gap is execution.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A cinematic open-world western leaning on shooting feel and atmosphere.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
An unforgiving Genesis mech shooter of memorised stages executed under fire.
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Target Earth leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Target Earth leans clearly harder on execution.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Gunplay and Dead Eye reward aim and timing.
Target Earth
Brutal mech run-and-gun demands precise jumps and shots
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Enemies use scripted AI patterns, not adaptation.
Target Earth
Enemy robots attack in fixed waves
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Some hunting and weather randomness, lightly hidden.
Target Earth
Stage events are scripted and memorisable
Target Earth leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Loadouts and routes solvable but loose.
Target Earth
Loadout selection and learned stage routes decide survival
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.