User blog comment:Lasifer/Welcome to Rapture: Booker DeWitt vs. Jack Ryan/@comment-3047208-20140201195315

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WEAPON EDGES:


 * Melee: Booker DeWitt - Jack's wrench is definitely a heavy hitting weapon, especially in his hands. It's blunt force will be a force to be reckoned with in close range, but I gotta give it to Booker's Sky-Hook here, and I think it's being badly underestimated in the fight. It's a lot more intimidating, damaging, and certainly more brutal than the simple wrench, three sharp-hooks rapidly spinning and drilling into you will be dealing a lot more damage than a few blows from a wrench. Additionally, the Sky-Hook gives another nice advantage to Booker in the form of mobility, he'll be able to latch onto things like freight hooks, and get the jump on Jack from above.


 * Handgun: Booker DeWitt - Jack's revolver is definitely a solid weapon, but I see Booker's Mauser as the better weapon. It may lack stopping power and damage dealing power of the revolver, but like EA said, that's where it's advantages end. Booker's Mauser holds triple the amount of rounds Jack's revolver does, and packs in an excellent rate of fire and quick reload to boot.


 * Shotgun: Even - Both of these shotties are pretty much dead even when it come down to it. Everyone else has mentioned the China Broom's sluggish reload, but Booker negates this with one of his gears, evening out one of Jack's only advantages with his shotgun.


 * SMG: Jack - I think everyone saw this edge coming, judging off other votes. Booker's own Triple R SMG is by no means a bad weapon, it's excellent, but it's outclassed by Jack's Thompson. The Tommy Gun has some major advantages over the Lanchester, packing it a powerful .45 ACP round, excellent rate of fire, and large drum magazine. Despite the Triple R's accuracy, it loses out to the Tommy in a lot of other important things, giving Jack an edge.


 * Long Range: Jack - I'm honestly surprised everyone's giving it to the crossbow, I thought the Sniper Rifle would be stomping, still, I too have to give it to Jack's crossbow after some thinking. The Bird's Eye Sniper Rifle is definitely an accurate and hard-hitting weapon with a range advantage, but that range advantage won't do it much good in Rapture, which doesn't have to many open areas that the sniper rifle can use to it's advantage, it's a great weapon in Columbia, a lot more open of a place, but it won't do too much good in Rapture. Jack's Crossbow may deal less damage, but it's advantages in ammo, rate of fire, and nice addition with the incendiary bolts get it the edge in long range.


 * Launcher: Jack - Jack's grenade launcher definitely takes the cake here. The Barnstormer is a more heavy hitting weapon, despite this, being used in the close corridors of Rapture could end up hurting Booker, and it's sluggish rate of fire and reload time make it a weapon that loses in everyway to Jack's grenade launcher, which packs an ammo advantage and better rate of fire and reload time.

OVERALL WEAPONS EDGE: JACK! I thought I was going to give it to Booker here, but Jack narrowly gets it for me. While none of Booker's weapons are certainly bad, and he has a great advantage in more close ranged combat, Jack's thompson will be a force to be reckoned with, and his crossbow and grenade launcher will be too.

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