Darkstorm Zero
Master of all Decepticons
Yes, it's a shame that we are debating the videogames and not the books...
it it was the version of MC from the Books, he and GF in a close up fistfight would be roughly Their speed would be close enough to eachother, strength... I'm still trying to determin if MC would survive a Stomp from REX, Intelligence... I'm not too sure, since even in the books we don't see anything of superintelligence from MC that would put him abode Mid level academics. but judging from the games, we can clearly see GF having the advantage...
As I said earlier though, ity's not as clear cut as all that, MC has the motion tracker, and although it doesn't defeat GF's cloaking, it does enable him to deiccern the approximate location of GF.
MC, WITHOUGHT Covenant weaponry would be hard pressed to defeat GF though, Bullets get difflected and GF is fast enough to dodge missiles and grenades, and can survive a few of them. (Chaff grenades play havok on GF though).
That sword would utterly plough through MC, Why your questioning this has got me stumped... if the sword cleaves through solid metal reinforced concrete, metal, stops bullets, and cleaves through god knows how many armoured Genome Soldiers, I'm certain that it can calve through MC's suit.
Yes, MC is stronger than snake, and yes snake defeated GF, but GF was malfunctioning, and was hardly putting up his best fight, remember, he wanted snake in H2H. That says he was holding back considerably.
GF is hardly just a man Hit... Obviously you know very little or nothing of his MGS incarnation... he went through a very similar process that MC went through.