Cyborgs in Fiction - Video Games

Video Games

• The Deus Ex videogame series deals extensively with the near-future rise of cyborgs.
• The Mass Effect Series contains countless cyborgs; Reaper troops, Reapers themselves, Commander Shepard, The Illusive Man, All human biotics, the Quarians, Kasumi Goto, etc. etc.
• The Syndicate series deals with a similar theme of people cybernetically enhanced and forced to serve the syndicate.
• In Warzone 2100, cyborgs can be built once the "Synaptic Link" technology is researched.
• In the video game Quake III Arena, many of the characters feature 'Cybronic Implants'.
• Several characters in the G-Police series of games.
• The "Handyman" from BioShock Infinite is a steampunk cyborg.
• In Konami's Metal Gear series, 3 characters become a "cyborg ninja". In Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions the ninja is Gray Fox; in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty it is Olga Gurlukovich; and in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the ninja is Raiden.
• Captain Tobias Bruckner from Turok: Evolution
• Coton from Mirage Media's Rise of the Robots and Rise 2: Resurrection (the only cyborg, while all other characters are robots).
• Cyber-Akuma, final boss from Capcom's Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (actually a variation on Akuma from the Street Fighter series).
• Mark IV Cyborg in the "Marathon Trilogy"
• Cyber Shredder, final boss from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue
• Brad Fang from Contra: Hard Corps
• Dr. Brackman and the various Symbionts of the Cybran Nation and United Earth Federation from Supreme Commander.
• The Electrocutioner from Batman
• Radd (or Ladd) Spencer, lead character from Capcom's Bionic Commando.
• Brocken from ADK's World Heroes series.
• Dr. Crygor from the WarioWare, Inc. series of games.
• The Strogg, a race of cybernetic warriors from the first person shooters Quake II, Quake 4, and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Also, Matthew Kane, lead character from Quake 4.
• A special perk in Fallout 3 allows the main character to become a cyborg. As well, in a subplot, the character can acquire the Wired Relexes perk from a scientist named Dr. Zimmer, which is implied to be a cybernetic enhancement.
• Cyrax, Sektor, and Smoke, the three cyborg ninja fighters in the fighting video game series Mortal Kombat.
• Kano and Major Jackson Briggs from Mortal Kombat.
• Doctor N. Gin of the Crash Bandicoot video game series.
• In Final Fantasy Legend III characters could shift between organic, cybernetic and robotic states by eating meat or installing parts.
• Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy VII
• The Combine from Half-Life 2 use transhuman cyborgs and biomechanical "synths" as their main weapons.
• The Lopers and Super Soldiers from Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 and the Spartan supersoldiers from Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, and Halo 3.
• Nicole from Dead or Alive 4
• The player characters as well as some monsters in the System Shock games.
• Grobyc ("Cyborg" spelled backwards), a cybernetic assassin in Chrono Cross. He joins the player's party after being defeated.
• Emerl from Sonic Battle.
• MegaMan.EXE from the Megaman Battle Network series, also known as Hub Hikari (Hikari Saito), brother to Lan. He was born human, but converted into a NetNavi form by Yuiichiro Hikari, due to his human body having the incurable HBD ailment. This would make him a data-based cyborg, as opposed to the standard machine/organic composite.
• Dr. Capek from the Red Faction series.
• Ghor from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
• Weavel from Metroid Prime Hunters.
• Meta Ridley from Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• The wizard of Wor, the villain from the arcade game of the same name.
• Xenoborg, from the Aliens vs. Predator series.
• Yoshimitsu from the Tekken and Soulcalibur series.
• Bryan Fury from the Tekken games.
• Robo-Manus, Battletoads video game series.
• Cyborg Molotov and Molly Ryan from Empire Earth.
• Ziggurat 8 from Xenosaga.
• A number of enemies in the Doom series feature both organic and cybernetic parts.
• Xan Kriegor and a number of playable characters, from Unreal Tournament.
• Volkov, from Command & Conquer: Red Alert, is a cyborg supersoldier, integrating a large hand cannon in his arm as primary method of attack. He also has a cybernetic animal companion, the cybernetic Attack dog Chitzkoi.
• Nod's Cyborg units, from Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. Also Awakened cyborgs are available in Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath. On Some level, Nod's artificial intelligence CABAL may also apply here as well.
• Yuri, from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, appears to have been cybernetically enhanced to enhance his psychic skills.
• Cyber-Errol from Jak 3.
• The Protoss Dragoon from StarCraft and the Stalker and the Immortal in Starcraft II.
• Flotsam the Clown, from the later parts of Dark Chronicle.
• Karan S'jet and the Bentusi from the Homeworld universe.
• Virtual Woman, from the various Virtual Woman releases
• Lieutenant Jean Razac, commanding officer of Roughnecks in CGI animated television series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles has a prosthetic arm. A few other minor characters are also shown with mechanized prosthetics.
• Godot in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations.
• In Space Siege,the player has the option to enhance his body with cybernetic augmentations and become less human and more machine till he is 5% human and 95% machine. also the Pilot had turned the people in the space ship to cyborgs. In one of the end options you can chose to go with pilot and turn all the people to cyborgs.
• The Grox in Spore
• In the TimeSplitters-series there are many cyborgs featured
• Many Space Marine and other characters in the Warhammer 40,000 universe are given bionic limbs and eyes to replace those they lose in battle.