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West Subway 1
This is not a place to walk at night, because seventy percent of the people living here have become addicted to narcotics and influenced by the notorious Geese.
As rounds progress, the scene changes from day to night and back to day again (a...
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South Town Village
It is located at bayside where lovers gather and where Geese's men are on the look out.
A one-line battle.
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Sound Beach 1
Music from a radio is heard on this beautiful beach where young people frolic all day.
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Pao Pao Cafe
This is the biggest restaurant owned by Geese in South Town. Don't be fooled because the drinks, not the food, is good.
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Howard Arena 1
This is the arena that Geese contributed to the town but is no doubt a training facility for the killer.
A distant storm brews, with periodic lightning strikes. In rounds 2 and 3 the combatants will be buffeted with rain, unless a 2-on-1 bat...
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Happy Park 1
It is a lovely park with a beautiful fountain.
After Hwa Jai takes some damage, a bald man in a suit (Geese's bodyguard Ripper?) will appear in the crowd and toss him a bottle for a temporary power-up.
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Dream Amusement Park 1
Many illegal transactions take place in this amusement park. The great Ferris wheel with the bird's eye view is the talk of the town.
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B.Port
A massive beached submarine with Maximum Mayhem painted on the side surrounded by Lilien Knights.
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X-Mansion
The headquarters of the X-Men and a school for gifted mutant youth. Here, the next generation of mutants are mentored and trained - ready to take on any threats that may appear on their doorstep.
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New York
Experience each of the three distinct areas of Marvel's New York City. Enjoy the hustle and bustle of the City Center, brave the brooding back allies of Hell's Kitchen and take in the calming green space of Avengers Park.
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Knowhere
A colossal Celestial head hangs suspended in deep space, forming the heart of a vast, interconnected battlefield. From drifting freight ships to floating meteorites and galactic vessels like the Milano and Nova Corps Star Blasters, the environment f...
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Road Rage
A scene of a horrific highway traffic collision. Black smoke licks the sky above the piles of broken cars that threaten to catch on fire any moment, and trucks hang above at dangerous angles. Fighters with some imagination will surely find a way to u...
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What's Left Behind
Smoldering ruins under a scorching sun, a place forgotten by gods and humans alike. This post-apocalytpic wasteland is a dream rendition of Old St. Patrick, a city that was wiped by the phage outbreak back in 2013, leading to the creation of the two ...
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Sunken Nightmares
A graveyard of sinking, rusted ships, swallowed by an endless dark sea under the fading moonlight. This haunting place was spawned by several deep-rooted traumas from Shaz's subconscious, including his inability to swim and the death of his favorite ...
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Savage Land
Spread out across five sprawling areas, Savage Land is an infamous tropical preserve hidden in Antarctica and home to extinct species and prehistoric life that has been lost to time.
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Asgard
Asgard is a majestic realm of gods and myth, where battles unfold across shining observatories, the radiant Bifrost and the grand halls of Odin. From the guarded treasures of Odin's Vault to the mystical presence of the World Tree Yggdrasil, the sta...
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Marvel's New York (Night)
Experience the iconic areas of Marvel's New York after nightfall. Neon lights and bustling crowds bring the City Center to life, fog and shadows cast an ominous mood over Hell's Kitchen, and Avengers Park becomes a tranquil nighttime escape beneath c...
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Elysium
An ethereal stage with clouds/fog on the ground and a big ol' daibutsu in the background.
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Mysterious North
A Christmas village in the high north, probably supposed to be around Santa's workshop in the North Pole. Aurora Borealis dances behind the mountain in the far back, at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the world, localized enti...
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Dark Abyss
Fight the game's Boss in this abstract arena in a dark purple void with floating rocks and stars.
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Garden of Eden
An interpretation of the Biblical locale, complete with floating golden apple on a little island in the background, representing the forbidden fruit. Adam sits at the stage left, and sometimes gets up and tries to get the fighters' attention. Eve, on...
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Training Room
The obligatory training stage that every fighting game seems to have to have, with lines along the stage to assist players in spacing. At least this one has a neat aesthetic, making it look like the inside of an ancient temple, although the Fight of ...
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the-loathing.exe
A virtual reality reconstruction of The Loathing, built thanks to the reports of the eyewitnesses of the Second Black Lightning. This simulation was engineered with the goal of being able to study the so-called "Shadow Gallery", but it has recently b...
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Witch Tower
Built in the early 2030s, in the wake of the neo-medieval revival, the so called "Witch Tower" is a staple landmark of the city of New Langdon. Its conception and design are attributed to the Austrian nobleman Vassili von Fledermaus, who proceeded to...
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The Loathing
The Loathing is an expression of Donner's inner world, a collection of darkness, despair, and horror, lurking every single inch of this distorted reality.
The laws of physics and the flow of time held no significance in this place, as there is no...
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Upstream Horizon
When the city council of New Langdon needed to renew the riverside of the Nerifumo in 2054, the proposal to shape it like the one in Strasbourg was warmly welcomed by almost everyone. With its low bridges and sidewalks around the course of the Nerifu...
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V.R. Panic
A computer generated landscape used by Delta Team for fighting simulations. The program is the home of the so-called Tutorial Man, a virtual entity programmed using movements and techniques from various different fighters.
This simulation can be ...
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Timeless Ascension
The temple valley in the district of Zhangyao (China) is more recent that may could expect from its look: the first stone of the temple complex was set in 2042, following the greenlighting from the Chinese government.
Designed by several internat...
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B.&D. Stadium
B.&D. is a huge brand of entertainment products with headquarters in Porto (Portugal). In 2054, as a mean to extend their influence to the rest of Europe, it sponsored the construction of twelve massive stadiums in various other countries, inaugurati...
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Deep Freeze
A snowstorm ridden wasteland near Novosibirsk, in Russia. The crater was formed by the impact of a colossal arkship from EXODUS in 2022, which resulted in the death of about two thousand between aliens and humans. The fall of the arkship was thought ...
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Door to Heaven
As a relatively important city in the United Kingdom, New Langdon is filled with skyscrapers which tower on the city centre, giving a feeling of freedom and superiority to whoever is allowed to stand at the top of one of them.
The Bonzaga skyscra...
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Encorp Railways
Encorp is a huge multinational corporation founded in 2027 in India and, since then, has branched in many other countries around the world. The Encorp headquarters in Shard (United Kingdom) are considered the spearhead of the company, in terms of sci...
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E.S.F. Qasbah
Among the starships employed by the ENiGMA space corps, the heavy-duty, Endymion class bombers are considered among the most effective, sporting an amazing firepower capable of leveling a small country from orbit. The E.S.F. Qasbah was built in 2050 ...
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Containment Breach
The infamous "branch 70X" of the Schwarzerblitz project laboratories in Euterpe, was built in 2062 in order to seclude the experimental samples and hinder their chance of escaping the facility.
Branch 70X was under direct supervision of chief sci...
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Sewn Playground
Formerly a warehouse run by the Fishface Crime Syndicate, this abandoned place has allegedly become the cove of the assassin known as "Doll", the mysterious "woman with needles" who has been for a long time at the center of some press buzz in Euterpe...
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Parsec Arena
A commemorative stage built to celebrate Parsec, the middleware used to run the Schwarzerblitz tournaments at Indievo 2020, Indievo 2020 Summer Showdown, and Quarantined Rapport 2. The colour scheme is based on the red/blue Parsec logo. This stage ha...
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Neonlight
Highway 49 is the most practical way to move from St. Patrick SHIELD to the main Ireland-Great Britain gate. It forms an unending, continuous road which spans over 350 Km and connects the two islands through a series of floating bridges.
The high...
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Shooting Star Aquarium
The Shooting Star Aquarium was opened in 2047 in New Langdon as a means to showcase a huge variety of living sea creatures, including genetically modified sea fauna. The aquarium is spread on a surface of more than thirty thousand square meters, host...
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Melting Point
The church of Qambura is a religious organization founded in 2048 by priest Ilias Antenora in the homonymous city in Peru. The ideology of this organization is based on the prediction that in two hundred years, at the peak of human civilization, the ...
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Lake of Remnants
A small island at the center of a lake somewhere in Sweden, though its location is not well documented anywhere. There are many legends concerning this place. They say that when northern lights are seen from the island, the spirits of the dead come b...
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Kingsland Graveyard
This old resting ground is not far from what was once the royal castle of Kingsland in the medieval days. Many noble knights were originally buried here, including Sir Rattlebone, but it's said that a large number of them were rudely awoken by a necr...
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Euterpe's Grave
Euterpe during the Second Black Lightning, as Donner managed to summon the Shadow Gallery to engulf the city. This is but the antechamber to something way worse, a reality twist known simply as “The Loathing”...
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Euterpe's Cradle
Euterpe is the new Italian capital city, built as a completely new artificial complex from 2037 on, following the installation of the distortion power plant. It replaced Rome as the fulcrum of political power somewhere during winter of 2057, during t...
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Encorp Surface Station
Encorp is a huge multinational corporation founded in 2027 in India and, since then, has branched in many other countries around the world. The Encorp headquarers in Shard (United Kingdom) are considered the spearhed of the company, in terms of scien...
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Elevator
As the Encorp corporation building in Shard encompasses several levels, above and below ground, a fast network of elevators is the quickest way to move to any section of the building.
Some of the elevators are directly connected to the train term...
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Unreal Euterpe
An "inner world" generated by Lejl and her connection to the resonance phenomenon known as "the Walking Night". This reality marble mocks the real Euterpe ruins, painting them in purple and violet under a dead sky, while a sort of sticky reddish subs...
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Midnight Harbour
Pier 14 is the main dockage for the ships of the Fishface Crime Syndicate and is mostly used to smuggle goods to and from Ireland.
Officially, the pier is used for small private passenger ships, which act as a cover up to allow the bigger submari...
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Delta Team Outpost
Delta Team (or Delta Squad) has been officially established in 2064, after the Black Lightning Disaster, in order to track down the increasing amount of mutants and hybrids roaming the world and perform investigations whenever a non-human creature is...
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Dead Zone Desert
The Dead Zone is an artificial sand desert located in the heart of Ireland, between the two dome cities of St. Patrick SHIELD and Correa DOME. The name comes from the fact that no human settlements can be found between the two cities, due to the ever...
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After Hours
Le Coq Heureux after business for the night.
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Le Coq Heureux
In the beating heart of the nightlife of New Langdon, "Le Coq Heureux" is the finest and most well known nightclub of the city. It features a casino, two dancing floors with strippers, and a third floor reserved to customers who want to spend the nig...
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Sunburnt Nightmare
When someone pisses off the leader of the Fishface Crime Syndicate, this is the place where they meet their end. This ominously nicknamed "Cage" is built somewhere inside the Dead Zone and guarded by heavily armed Criterion-class sentinel robots, whi...
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Military Hospital
The infamous "branch 70X" of the Schwarzerblitz project laboratories in Euterpe, was built in 2062 in order to seclude the experimental samples and hinder their chance of escaping the facility.
Branch 70X was under direct supervision of chief sc...
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Hero's Dream
The Domus Aurea in Euterpe went ablaze the night Sanjuro Bonzaga was killed by his kitsune dolls. After a powerful explosion annihilated a consistent chunk of the floor, a fiery fire completely devoured what was left of the once luxurious penthouse, ...
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Domus Aurea
Since the establishment of his company in 2034, the Japanese businessman Sanjuro Bonzaga managed to make himself a name as a ruthless entrepreneur, who stops at nothing in order to make profit.
Due to his attitude (or thanks to it), Bonzaga Holdi...
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Down to Hell
In the busting heart of Bangkok, there is another Bonzaga skyscraper, similar in design to that in New Langdon, but with significant differences. The architect who was tasked to design it, Ney Rocca, took inspiration from gothic vibes and decided to ...
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Dead Garden
What remains of the city of Northern Algol, after the Rosenmaester incident in 2061. The blood flowers which wiped the population of the city are still growing and thriving, making it all but impossible to travel through large portions of it without ...
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Acid Symphony
The sewage system of the domed city of St. Patrick SHIELD has been designed to handle huge quantities of toxic materials and reprocess it effectively with a minimal loss of reusable materials.
Due to the sporadic attacks of Lymatophages, the sewa...
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The Deepest Layer
There is something to be said about dreams: no matter how weird, they can become weirder. This is the deepest layer of Shaz's dream, a mix of static and glowing lights that blink to no end. The patterns keep repeating, without reason or meaning - or ...
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Digital Madness
What's left of a dream, when the curtain closes? This wireframe reproduction of the arena is how the MEMORIAN builds them in its systems, storing them as bits and pieces of information and reconstructing them when needed. This arena is missing textur...
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Dojo
A simple square-grid training ground, like those seen in many other video games. Shaz might have played one or two of them with Todd, without really understanding a lot about them. Yet, despite finding the grid "the plainest stage ever", it somehow m...
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Exploding Judo Federation Arena
A sports arena with the Exploding Judo Federation logo, surrounded by several identical taiko drummers in the middle of their play. Shaz's mind conceived this place by mixing scenes from Blasting Fist and the European Judo Championship won by Bea Gat...
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Last Stop
The train station of the city of Blitzhafen - a place that does not exist - featuring a blurry timetable defaced by graffiti and obscene pictures. The station has two Platform 3s, where the fights happen, against all logic but within the boundaries o...
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Tori Graveyard
A crater filled with shallow water, surrounded by broken down temples and gates and by the wisps of the deceased. This place outside time and space looks like a hymn to quiet isolation and meditation, surrounded by the ruins of something that was and...
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Peak of Passion
A rusted platform dangerously standing close to the peak of a snowy mountain in the Alps. The black sky and constant snowstorms add to the feeling of loneliness and isolation that this place evokes. This construct might have been caused by the associ...
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