Solid Snake vs Master Chief

Not really.

My underestimating an ant as I'm about to step on it is hardly dangerous.

If you where to compare the two, Snake is nothing but an ant compared to the Chief. With all of his feats, he would crush Snake without too much effort at all.

Hey don't get me wrong, I *WAS* a big advocate of not relying on the novelisations for ingame feats when it came to HALO, but in hindsight, just because it's not within the game itself, does not eliminate it as a valued and more importantly *VALID* canon source, since many games have other media to demonstrate finer points of capability that simply can't be reproduced due to gameplay restriction.

Fighting Games for example depend a great deal on other media to determine true capabilities of their moves.

FPS and strategy games also come to mind, as does RPGs.

Bottom line:
If Decimus as the threadstarter has determined that the feats of the book are invalid, then that means that the Book feats cannot be discussed, therefore we must rely on ingame canon, and the simplye truth is, that even though Cheif isn't as fast or as durable in the games as he is in the books, he STILL has leagues of technological edge, strength, and weaponry over Snake... Though in Snakes defence, his sneaking ability is more of an advantage now, since the Motion Tracker traces larger movements than a person merely inching forward or crawling slowly...

IMO cheif still wins this, though with greater difficulty than before.

I think that with purely video game feats the Chief can lose much easier. Snake's basically a superhuman with Wolverine level regeneration in the games...

I cant believe that everyone of you guys thinks that Master Chief would own Snake. Are you all forgeting about Snake's will. Solid Snake crawled through a giant microwave to accomplish his mission. If we made the same technology available to Snake that was available to MC, then I think Snake could beat MC. If MC was put into the Metal Gear Universe the same would result.

Sure, if you give Snake the same superhuman body as chief's, the same armour, tech and weapons then maybe he'd pull off a win. But as he is, he'll lose.

Chief.

Snake will make it a fight, but he is going down.

Close range, Snake loses. There is just no answer from Chief's armor.

Mid range - How far are we talking? And what kinda weapons? Machine guns? I probably still think Chief wins here unless maybe a chaff grenade messes up chief's suit or something. Chief 9/10

Long range - I think this is where Snake has the upper hand. His stealth abilities are legendary beating the old man from MGS 3 snake eater, not too mention he owned two great snipers who were among the best in the MGS universe. Sniper Wolf in MGS and one of the mechs from MGS 4. I think he has the one 8/10.