User blog:Manofgod/Sean Devlin vs Desmond Miles

Sandbox-style video games are everywhere. They are one of the most popular genres of video gaming to date. The most common of these are the GTA clones that's been duking out in the consumer market for almost a decade now, but there's something special about being able to climb up through buildings and freerun across the rooftops in an almost endless horizon of snadbox. Here we battle two of the most popular free-running sandbox protagonist from their respective series (minus the superpowers like Alex Mercer, Cole MacGrath and the Agent).

Sean Devlin, the brutal Irishman who single-handedly destroyed the Nazis occupying France... vs Desmond Miles, a seemingly normal bertender who became the descendant of many of history's greatest assassins. Who is the deadliest warrior?

Sean Devlin
Sean Devlin is the main character in The Saboteur. Sean is Irish-born, but he moved to France due to being wanted by the Irish government. He was a professional race-car driver and mechanic, until his "brother" Jules was killed by race car driver/Nazi agent Dierker. Since then, he commited his entire time to getting revenge on Dierker.

In 1940 Sean comes to Saarbrücken's Grand Prix. He almost wins the race but is cheated at the last minute by German Nazi Colonel Kurt Dierker, who later becomes the main antagonist. He shoots the wheels of the Aurora, Sean's race car. Later that day, Looking for petty revenge, Sean and his friend, Jules, go to a Nazi camp and drive Dierker's car of a cliff. Dierker catches Sean and Jules, and tortures them, thinking Sean and Jules were British spies. Eventually Dierker kills Jules, but Sean managed to escape. Sean runs to Paris under the Nazi conquest, and joins the French Resistance. The war is just the background of the story; Sean's passion is to avenge his best friend's death, and kill Kurt Dierker.

Weapons

 * Main Weapon: Executioner pistol - A very powerful Automatic Luger Pistol owned by Kurt Dirker. Uses 9mm ammo chambered in a 32 round drum magazine and has very high rate of fire. It also has a brass knuckle finger guard knife attached to the base plate of the magazine to use as a melee weapon.
 * Tools: Explosives - as the titular Saboteur, Sean is an expert in everything that goes boom. He can use remote-detonated TNTs to blow up armored vehicles, tanks and even buildings. He can also use steilhandgrenades and rocket launchers like the panzerschreck and the panzerfaust.

Desmond Miles
Desmond Miles (1987 – 2012) was a member of the Assassin Order and a descendant of numerous familial lines that had sworn an allegiance to the Assassins; including individuals such as Aquilus, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Edward Kenway, and Ratonhnhaké:ton.

In September 2012, Desmond was kidnapped and incarcerated by Abstergo Industries, a Templar organization, and forced into a machine called the Animus to relive the genetic memories of his ancestor, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. It was Abstergo's aim to acquire a map that detailed many "Pieces of Eden" spread across the Earth, which Desmond was reluctantly successful in doing. Following this, he managed to escape Abstergo with the help of Lucy Stillman, an undercover Assassin, and joined an Assassin cell in Italy, which consisted of herself, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane. Utilizing an upgraded Animus of Rebecca's construction, Desmond relived the memories of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, in order to improve upon his newly obtained skills.

Weapons

 * Main Weapon: Heckler & Koch Mark 23 Phase II Prototype and Hidden Blade - Daniel Cross' MK23 pistol, which Desmond obtained after killing Cross. It is semiautomatic, fires .45 ACP from a 12 round magazine. Desmond like all other assassins carried a hidden blade for stealth kills.
 * Tools - Eagle Vision - is a sixth sense that allows Desmond to sense how people and objects relate to them, which manifests as a colored glow, much like an aura. Red indicates enemies or spilled blood, blue indicates allies, white indicates sources of information or hiding spots, and gold indicates targets or objects of interest. He can also use it to detect a certain through walls and even faint heat signatures.

X-Factors (Devlin vs Miles)

 * Stealth: 80-90 - Sean is a capable stealth artist who can sneak behind Nazis and use disguises to get around Nazis (but if he gets too close he will be caught). On the other hand, Desmond Miles is fully capable of rendering himself invisible by "blending in the crowd" and also perform on-the-ledge and air assassinations like his ancestors.
 * Brutality: 70 - 100 - Desmond's body count is only few, having only been through short missions. Sean Devlin is different since he can destroy a whole Nazi base all by himself using his trademark guns and explosives.
 * Tactics: 85 - 80 - Desmond did led the Assassins Order to defeat Abstergo and save civilization but it was short-lived. Sean managed to rally and lead the whole French Resistance into finally freeing France from Nazi occupation.

Battle
Battle will take place in a rather big European City. Voting will ends on May 4. For those of you who might ask I used Battlfand237's Minor WW2 Allies : Josip Broz Tito vs. Alexander Papagos as a format, so credits go to him.