There are many strong and powerful women, or femme fatales, in Greek mythology, such as Circe, Clytemnestra, Artemisia, and Medea.
One of the great things about computer games is that anything is possible – except women who fight, apparently.
I was also, may Colleen Lowe Morna et al forgive me, ruminating on the wondrousness of the construction of the female body (two joggers who were clearly of Amazonian descent had just run by - I think ...