Exoskeleton

Exoskeletons are artificial body suits that enable the wearer with inhuman strength, enhanced durability, and other superior capabilities that would be impossible to obtain otherwise.

Overview

Exoskeletons are suits that generally have ability-enhancing propertiies, as well as functioning as armor. The functionality differs from suit to suit. The technology is in development by the Army in an attempt to create the so-called "future soldier."

Video game characters with exo skeletons:

Grey Fox

Grey Fox (Metal Gear Solid)

Grey Fox (Frank Jaeger) was a soldier who was killed on the battlefield by Solid Snake ( Metal Gear). However, his body was recovered and given life again by Dr. Clark ( Para Medic from Metal Gear Solid 3). He was fitted with an exoskeleton that has the ability to cloak. He was defeated in battle again by Solid Snake, but reappears to destroy the radome on Metal Gear Rex near the end of the game. A suit similar to Grey Fox's is worn by Olga in Metal Gear Solid 2.

Nomad (Crysis)

Nomad

In Crysis, players control Nomad, a member of an elite military group that wears an exo skeleton that grants its wearer a set of powers.
These powers include super strength, speed, improved armor and the ability to cloak. However, only one of these powers can be used at once and each power drains the suit's energy reserves, which fills up again over time.

Samus Aran

Samus Aran (Metroid series)

You can't be an interstellar bounty hunter without some advanced gear, so Samus Aran is usually seen wearing her trademark Varia suit. While Samus dons many different suits throughout the Metroid series, they all look similar to this one. The most prominent and often-used part of her suit is the arm cannon, or Power Beam, which can be modified to shoot missiles, ice beams, plasma beams and all sorts of other beams and projectiles. Her most iconic ability is probably to roll up into a ball which can drop bombs and go really fast. Another ability which appears in many Metroid games is the grapple beam, which lets Samus' arm latch on to certain surfaces so she can swing from them. Variants on the suit allow her to withstand extreme heat, Phazon radiation and various other substances and situations.

Name	Platforms	Developer
Scribblenauts released on Sept. 15, 2009	DS	5th Cell Media
Metroid Prime Trilogy released on Aug. 24, 2009	WII	Nintendo, Retro Studios
Crysis Warhead released on Sept. 17, 2008	PC	Crytek GmbH
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots released on June 12, 2008	PS3	Kojima Productions
Haze released on May 20, 2008	PS3	Crytek UK
Crysis released on Nov. 13, 2007	PC	Crytek GmbH
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption released on Aug. 28, 2007	WII	Retro Studios
Rising Eagle: Futuristic Infantry Warfare released on Jan. 1, 2007	PC	Invasion Interactive Ltd.
Xenosaga: Episode III - Also Sprach Zarathustra released on Aug. 29, 2006	PS2	Monolith Software, Inc.
Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel released on June 13, 2006	PSN, PSP	Kojima Productions

Name:	Exoskeleton
Appears in:	27 games
First appearance:
Aliases

	Raiden
	Gray Fox
	Nomad
	Samus Aran
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	Crying Wolf
	Fenix
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	Olga Gurlukovich
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