User blog comment:Death'sapprentice77/Round 1: Spy vs. Spy, Solid Snake vs. Sam Fisher/@comment-2167257-20121012115423

I have to raise several complains about this fight.

First of all, the writing could use a bit of improvement. Especially in the last knife fight, it is quite confusing to read.

Snake's gear is also wrong - the sniper rifle he canonically uses is the Heckler&Koch PSG-1 (Metal Gear Solid, boss fight against Sniper Wolf), and the assault rifle is either the FAMAS (MGS) or the M4 (a normal one in MGS 2, a highly customizable one in MGS 4)

The biggest error in the gear is giving him the Mk 2 tranquillizer pistol - while he did use that gun, his signature handgun is the Mk 23 SOCOM, and is also better suited to an assassination mission.

While I do respect the fact that Sam Fisher won the voting (even if I find votes like "SAM IS THE BEST" nothing more than the expression of a fanboy), I had the impression that throughout the whole fight Snake's performance was continuously nerfed - missing his target completely in the beginning clashes with the fact that he defeated Sniper Wolf, one of the best snipers in the MGS world. I am not saying that Sam would have died right on the spot, but he would have been wounded, unless he managed to take cover and recognize the threat before Snake pulled the trigger.

Also, while Sam Fisher's stealth and infiltration skills are at least on par with Snake's, the latter would certainly overpower him in direct combat, as Snake was able to defeat a really long list of capable warriors, most of which relied on superior weapons and/or superhuman powers on top of combat skills.

This list includes also a M1 Abrahms tank, a Hind D attack helicopter, and a freaking giant mecha (the eponimous Metal Gear).

With all the respect for the Splinter Cell games and their fans, in my personal opinion Sam would be toast.