head to head
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is optimization, and it is a single point.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Patient positioning and learned ballistics, executed one careful shot at a time.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Patient ballistic aiming wrapped in plannable stealth positioning.
Sniper Elite leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Sniper Elite V2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Sniper Elite
Steadying long shots against wind and breathing demands precision
Sniper Elite V2
Ballistics-compensated long shots demand steady precise aim
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Sniper Elite
Enemy patrols follow scripts, not adaptive minds
Sniper Elite V2
Enemy AI runs fixed alert routines
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Sniper Elite
Guard positions are scripted-but-unknown on first pass
Sniper Elite V2
Wind and patrol details vary slightly per attempt
Sniper Elite leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Sniper Elite
Ballistics math, positioning and route planning carry each mission
Sniper Elite V2
Positioning, sound masking and route planning are learnable
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.