User blog comment:SentryNeo/Karen Low vs Max Payne/@comment-5795750-20140116070115

BG1's "Whoops! I forgot to vote until now" aka "This seems familiar..." Edges:

Melee: Both weapons work well in different scenarios and for this reason I'm calling the edge even; with the bayonet, its lighter, more lethal with its puncture wounds and can grant Karen a point of versatility when its mounted on the pistol; with the baseball bat, its longer, sturdy and potentially anyone on Max's team (including Max himself) can use it to some extent

EDGE: Even

Short Range: Battle of the copycats 1 and for this (so I don't piss off EA) I will give the edge to the M1911 copycat for possessing larger calibre bullets and perhaps retaining the same degree of reliability as the Colt

EDGE: Max

Medium Range: Battle of the copycats 2 and this edge goes to Karen since with a lower rate of fire and high muzzle velocity, it can deadly blows with great precision

EDGE: Karen

Karen vs Max X-Factors: Average of 84 for Karen; Average of 74.7 for Max

EDGE: Karen

Daxinghai Contractors vs DEA X-Factors: Average of 75 for the Contractors; Average of 89.5 for the DEA

EDGE: DEA

Overall Winner: Boy this one is close - weapons edges are about even so it boils down to X-Factors; after analyzing both it's clear to me that Karen's time as a soldier definitely trumps the policework of the DEA and Max but Max is insanely accurate and possess great physicality and agility (how else do you think he pulls off those Woo-style leaps and kill his enemies?) so the battle will boil down to just the two of them (after each other's leaders wipe the other's minions out); to me, at the end of the day, I think that with the more balanced X-Factors and a background in the military, Karen Low marginally wins this