As Raellus mentioned, the muzzlebrake on the AK74 is very effective and the rifle is as controllable as the M16A2 in burst fire and semi-auto. I can't remember the GDW stats for the two rifles but for recoil the values for both should be approximately the same.
There are only two downsides with the muzzlebrake: -
Muzzle blast vents up as well as to the right - not in itself a problem... unless you're the poor bastard on the right, the muzzleblast is described as "noticeable muzzle flash and quite loud"
The muzzlebrake requires good cleaning to keep it effective.
I'd say that the guys from GDW just applied their standard formula for calculating recoil as normal and didn't factor in the muzzlebrake. I vaguely recoil that they did acknowledge that muzzlebrakes can make a big difference but at the time of writing they probably had no first hand accounts of the AK74 muzzlebrake to work from.
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