The Metal Gear Solid series of video games has a recurring character known as Grey Fox or the " Cyborg Ninja " who is a person wearing a cybernetic exoskeleton ( either worn as a suit or grafted directly to the character's body ) and wielding a high-frequency blade.

The cyborg ninja suit has been donned by multiple characters, most recently by the character Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

This was the case with the overseas versions of Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Rogue Galaxy, which contained additional features ( such as new difficulty settings for Metal Gear Solid ), resulting in re-released versions of those respective games in Japan ( Final Fantasy VII International, Metal Gear Solid: Integral and Rogue Galaxy: Director's Cut ).

In the case of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the American versions were released first, followed by the Japanese versions and then the European versions, with each regional release offering new content not found in the previous one.

All of the added content from the Japanese and European versions of those games were included in the expanded editions titled Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence.

Examples are the Matthew Reilly books Temple and Hell Island, the James Rollins books Sandstorm, Map of Bones, The Judas Strain, The Doomsday Key and Black Order, and the video game series Metal Gear Solid, as well as the video games Infamous, Vanquish, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction.

" Popular videogame director Hideo Kojima has referred to the movie frequently as an influence on his work, in particular the Metal Gear series.

In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Snake actually uses the alias " Pliskin " to hide his real identity during the game.

* Frank Jaeger, the Cyborg Ninja from the Metal Gear videogame series

* Gene therapy is a crucial plot element in the video game Metal Gear Solid, where it has been used to illegally enhance the battle capabilities of soldiers within the US military, and their Next Generation Special Forces units.

Metal Gear D in the Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake cover illustration by Yoshiyuki Takani.

Iconic Metal Gears of the series include the Metal Gear D in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Metal Gear REX in Metal Gear Solid, and Metal Gear RAY in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

* The MOSFET ( Metal – Oxide – Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor ) utilizes an insulator ( typically SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) between the gate and the body.

Metal ions are Lewis acids, and in aqueous solution they form aqua ions of the general formula M ( H < sub > 2 </ sub > O )< sub > n </ sub >< sup > m +</ sup >.

Metal oxides typically contain an anion of oxygen in the oxidation state of − 2.

* Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, an update of the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

( Metal data will not be included in the second edition, since these have been collected independently by W. B. Pearson, National Research Council, Ottawa, and published as A handbook of lattice spacings and structures of metals and alloys by Pergamon Press.

This project is also funded by Redevelopment Agency ( 1998, 2004 and 2010 / 11 ) Tax Allocation Bond funds and Pavement Management Program funds and will install the Decorative Metal Archway immediately west of the 2nd Street Roundabout on Yucaipa Boulevard.

On June 1, 2009, General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced that its Ontario stamping plant ( Mansfield-Ontario Metal Center ) will close in June 2010.

From 2012, all instrumental performances in the rock category will be shifted to either the newly formed Best Rock Performance or Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance categories.

From 2012, the best hard rock performances will be shifted to either the Best Rock Performance or Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance categories.

In the December 2011 issue of Metal Hammer, Cavalera stated that the main theme of the album will be slavery, with confirmed song titles " Slave ", " Chains ", " Legions " ( a song about the Roman Empire ), " Gladiator ", " Redemption of Man by God " ( featuring Dez Fafara ), and " Revengeance " ( with Max's 3 sons featuring: Zyon on drums, Richie on vocals and Iggor writing half the guitar riffs ).

Metal skewers are typically stainless steel and will have a pointed tip on one end and a grip of some kind on the other end for ease of removing the food.

As with Metal Gear, if the player is discovered in Splinter Cell, the guards will often raise a general alarm.

Konami produced the Silent Hill movie ( released in 2006 ) and has announced that they will produce a Metal Gear Solid movie.

The album's name and lyrical concept were revealed on January 29, 2011 in an interview by DJ JC Green of Metal Messiah Radio's " Heavy Metal Thunder " show with Russell Allen: the follow-up to Paradise Lost will be titled Iconoclast and will have its lyrics centered around " machines taking over everything and all this technology we put our society into pretty much being our demise.

During a discussion panel at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in March 2012, Kojima stated " I am working on something that I think will become the shining moment " for his career and the Metal Gear series.

A social game for the GREE titled Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops will be released in fall 2012.

Although the series will continue after Metal Gear Solid 4, that title is Snake's final canonical appearance as Kojima does not want future developers to handle the character.

But I don't think that game will be Metal Gear Solid.

Big Metal returns to his people with the message that the Apsaalooka people will survive only so long as the river winding out of the mountains is known as the Bighorn River.

" They concluded that " only diehard fans will find the experience rewarding " and that the best way to play the game is through the bonus disc of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence.

Eggman tells Sonic that his city of Eggmanland ( Robotropolis in dub ), located in the Land of Darkness, has been seized by a giant mechanical version of himself Metal, who sabotaged the Robot Generator by overloading it with energy, which will malfunction and destroy Planet Freedom by sunrise tomorrow.

Since the arrival of 3D computer graphics in games it is often possible for the player to switch between first-and third-person perspectives at will ; this is usually done to improve spatial awareness, but can also improve the accuracy of weapons use in generally third-person games such as the Metal Gear Solid franchise.

In order to promote the recording, Ugly Kid Joe will be playing a series of festivals that summer, including Sweden Rock in Sweden, Download in England, Gods of Metal in Milan, Italy, and Belgrade Calling in Serbia.

Metal stoves are often lined with refractory materials such as firebrick, since the hottest part of a woodburning fire will burn away steel over the course of several years ' use.

Metal acetylides can be coupled with primary alkyl halides.

Metal samples from large grained alloys may be simple to fabricate, particularly from wire samples, with hand-electropolishing techniques giving good results.

Metal complexes and electron deficient compounds ( e. g. diborane ) also appeared to be well described by molecular orbital theory, although valence bond descriptions have been made.

Metal / alloy: Metal alloys, composites and pure metals can be used as grease additives or the sole constituents of sliding surfaces and bearings.

Metal alloys can be engineered to have high resistance to shear, torque and deformation.

Metal can still be sold in bulk to a bullion dealer or smelter for the value by weight of the component metals.

In contemporary digital video games, the player can be a vicarious spy, as in the Metal Gear, especially in the series ' third installment, Metal Gear Solid, unlike the games of the Third-Person Shooter genre, Syphon Filter, and Splinter Cell.

Tungsten is not traded as a futures contract and cannot be tracked on exchanges like the London Metal Exchange.

Metal cans containing food in which bacteria, possibly botulinum, are growing may bulge outwards due to gas production from bacterial growth ; such cans should be discarded.

They are the first band to be labeled as nu metal, starting the New Wave of American Heavy Metal.

Metal tools and special brushes can be used to shape the paint before it cools, or heated metal tools can be used to manipulate the wax once it has cooled onto the surface.

The visual imagery of Laibach's art ( or ' Laibach Kunst ', as it calls itself ) has been described as ' radically ambiguous ', An early example of this ambiguity would be the woodcut entitled The Thrower, also known as Metalec ( The Metal Worker ).

Metal aglets may be crimped onto ropes or cables.

* 2004-He is briefly mentioned in Metal Gear Solid 3 when he is said to be piloting a Lockheed M-21 in game.

Ciaran O ' Hagan of Waylander notes that while " Primordial are Ireland ’ s biggest Metal band in terms of sales and international profile " the band would be " lucky to sell much more than 500 copies of their albums in their own country or pull more than 300 punters to a gig.

" The first Discovery and Settlement of this Country was by the Procurement of Sir Walter Raleigh, in Conjunction with some publick-spirited Gentlemen of that Age, under the Protection of Queen Elizabeth ; for which Reason it was then named Virginia, being begun on that Part called Ronoak-Island, where the Ruins of a Fort are to be seen at this day, as well as some old English Coins which have been lately found ; and a Brass-Gun, a Powder-Horn, and one small Quarter deck-Gun, made of Iron Staves, and hoop'd with the same Metal ; which Method of making Guns might very probably be made use of in those Days, for the Convenience of Infant-Colonies.

Furthermore, he has applauded NSBM bands for having " the guts to be different and politically incorrect, unlike the spineless poser-bands in the ' Black Metal ' scene ".

The eighties showed the adult comics getting somewhat stale, wallowing in sex and violence ( examples of which can be seen in Heavy Metal magazines from the period ).

In the film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, George Fisher said death metal is best viewed " as art ," and claimed that far more violent art can be found at the Vatican, saying that such depictions actually happened.

The Wing Cap allows Mario to fly ; the Metal Cap makes him immune to most damage, allows him to withstand wind, walk underwater, and be unaffected by noxious gases ; and the Vanish Cap renders him partially immaterial and allows him to walk through some obstacles such as wire mesh, as well as granting invulnerability to some forms of damage.