head to head
vs
Soviet StrikevsSWAT 4
Soviet Strike leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); SWAT 4 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Soviet StrikeSWAT 4
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
Soviet Strike leans harder on execution: Helicopter handling under fire decides moment-to-moment survival
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
SWAT 4 leans harder on variance: suspect placement and behavior randomized
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.