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Everybody loves battle armor — it's stylish and allows you to kill more people without ruining your stylish evening wear. And the next best thing to wearing armor is drooling over concept art of armor. Here's some of our favorites.

The above is Unreal Tournament 3 concept art, via Gamespot Forums

Armor concept art by FOYLE, aka Adam Lucas, over at ConceptArt.org. Inspired by John Steakley's amazing book Armor.

Marauder from Starcraft 2, concept art via SC2blog

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Awesome female battle armor poses by Alteride on DeviantArt

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Aki Iwano — Downtown by Alteride on DeviantArt

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Scan of a page from the Art of Fallout 3, showing Enclave Armor.

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Long Arm by FowlerIllus at ConceptArt.org

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Section 8, 8th Regiment's armor, via Destructoid.com

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Gears of War COG armor, via Destructoid.com

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Gears of War COG armor, via Destructoid.com

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Avatar powersuit concept art by James Clyne et al., from The Art of Avatar

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Avatar powersuit concept art by James Clyne et al., from The Art of Avatar

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Avatar powersuit concept art by James Clyne et al., from The Art of Avatar

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Awesome Iron Man concept art by Phil Saunders

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Iron Man Mark IV suit concept art by Ryan Meinerding

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Suitcase armor by Ryan Meinerding

War Machine concept art

Mutant Soldier Battle Suit concept art from Godzilla Final Wars, via yimwhan

Woman in armor by Gabriel Valle

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Brotherhood of Steel Advanced Powered Armour from Fallout: Tactics, art by Tariq Raheem, via Fallout Wikia

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V13 power armor by Serg Souleiman, via Fallout Wikia

Marauder concept art from Star Craft 2, via Inc Gamers

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Halo Wars concept art by Alessandro Baldasseroni

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Starcraft art by Harley Huggins on Flickr.

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Warhammer Online concept art by Alessandro Baldasseroni

Terran Marauder concept art by ProlificPen at DeviantArt

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Hellgate Hunter concept art by Alessandro Baldasseroni

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Section 8 concept art by Alessandro Baldasseroni