Heckler & Koch XM8

The Heckler & Koch XM8 and variants appears in the following movies and video games used by the following actors:

Heckler & Koch XM8 Carbine

Older version of Heckler & Koch XM8 - 5.56x45mm NATO

Heckler & Koch XM8 w/ Insight ISM-V sight - 5.56x45mm. Note "birdcage" flash hider replacing the old "duckbill," and four PCAP accessory mounting holes added to the handguard.

Film

• General George Deckert (Willem Dafoe)'s men and Ice Cube as Darius Stone in XXX 2: State of the Union (actually visually modified Heckler & Koch G36Ks fitted with M203 grenade launchers)

• Soldiers in Children of Men (airsoft replicas)

Video Games

• Combat Arms

• Crysis 2 (As the "SCAR")

• Rainbow Six: Vegas (as "M8")

• Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (as "M8")

• Ghost Recon 2

• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

• Battlefield: Bad Company (With no scope and fitted with M320 grenade launcher, the Carbine variant with silencer attached and the SAW variant)

• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

• Soldier of Fortune: Payback (usable only in PS3 and X360 versions)

• SOCOM: Combined Assault

• Saints Row 2

• Splinter Cell: Double Agent (not usable)

• Counter-Strike Online

• Crysis and Crysis Warhead (as the "SCAR")

• ArmA II

• Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (not usable)

• Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Same model as in the first Bad Company, along with all the other variants; however, red dot and ACOG sights can be mounted)

Anime

• Rideback

Heckler & Koch XM8 Compact Carbine

Heckler & Koch XM8 Compact Carbine - 5.56x45mm

Heckler & Koch XM8 Compact Carbine with full stock - 5.56x45mm

Video Games

• ArmA II

• Battlefield: Bad Company

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2

• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

• Clive Barker's Jericho

Heckler & Koch XM8 Sharpshooter Rifle

Early concept art of the Heckler & Koch XM8 Sharpshooter Rifle - 5.56x45mm. Note lack of PCAP accessory mounting holes and shorter handguard than the final version below.

Heckler & Koch XM8 Sharpshooter Rifle - 5.56x45mm

Video Games

• ArmA II
• Blacksite: Area 51
• Counter-Strike Online
• Ghost Recon 2
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Heckler & Koch XM8 Automatic Rifle

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Heckler & Koch XM8 Automatic Rifle - 5.56x45mm

Heckler & Koch XM8 Automatic Rifle - 5.56x45mm. Early concept art showed the LMG version with a bipod formed by folding down the base of the handguard, and this may still be shown in some videogames; the final version has a more traditional bipod.

Video Games

• Battlefield: Bad Company

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2

• ArmA II

See Also

Heckler & Koch G36 - The assault rifle for which the XM8 is based on.