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Star Fox: AssaultvsTomb Raider (2013)

Star Fox: Assault leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tomb Raider (2013) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Star Fox: AssaultTomb Raider (2013)

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Star Fox: Assault leans harder on execution: Arwing dogfights and on-foot aim demand steady twitch play

Reads2 vs 1

Star Fox: Assault leans harder on reads: Versus mode adds light human prediction; campaign is scripted

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Tomb Raider (2013)