Bonus Level 6
The Big List of Environments1
- Abandoned city
- Air/clouds
- Airplane
- Airport/airship port
- Alien planet
- Alien ship
- Amphitheatre
- Ancient ruins
- Aquarium
- Arcade
- Atlantis
- Bank
- Bar/cantina
- Barren rock (planetoid or moon)
- Battlefield/war zone/no man’s land
- Bayou
- Beach
- Biomechanical area (à la Alien)
- Boardwalk
- Campsite
- Candy land
- Carnival
- Cartoon world/comic book world
- Casino/Las Vegas/Atlantic City
- Castle
- Cave
- Chemical plant
- Chinatown
- Chinese temple
- Church
- Circus
- City street
- Cliff city
- Clock tower
- Comic book store
- Concert hall
- Construction site
- Crack house
- Cruise ship
- Cyberspace/computer world (à la Tron)
- Deep space
- Desert
- Desert island
- Disco
- Dojo/temple
- Dungeon/catacombs
- Egypt/Egyptian tomb
- Factory
- Fairytale land
- Famous monument
- Farm/ranch
- Fast-food restaurant
- Fire level/world
- Forest
- Fort
- Fort Knox/treasury
- Freeway
- Funeral home
- Futuristic city
- Garden
- Giant-sized world (can be applied to any theme)
- Glacier/ice flow
- Government installation
- Graveyard
- Haunted house
- Heaven/Olympus
- Hospital
- Hotel/inn
- House/apartment
- Ice
- Indian reservation/village/burial ground
- Inside a creature/on top of a giant creature
- Jungle
- Junkyard
- Kitchen
- Laboratory
- Library
- “Little” world (where the player has been shrunken down)
- Mall/marketplace
- Mansion
- Marina/seaport
- Mayan jungle/temple
- Maze/hedge/labyrinth
- Medieval village
- Metropolis/megalopolis/arcology
- Military base/Area 51
- Mines
- Missile silo
- Monastery
- Mountain
- Movie set/TV studio
- Movie theater
- Moving train
- Museum
- New York City
- North pole
- Nuclear reactor ...
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