September 2010
Beginner
514 pages
12h 32m
English
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Chapter 5. 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
Casino/Las Vegas/Atlantic City
Castle
Cave
Chemical plant
Chinatown
Chinese temple
Church
Circus
City street
Cliff city
Clock tower
Concert hall
Construction site
Crack house
Cruise ship
Cyberspace/computer world (à la Tron)
Desert
Desert island
Disco
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
Graveyard
Haunted house
Heaven/Olympus
Hospital
Hotel/inn
House
Ice
Indian reservation/village/burial ground
Inside a creature/on top of a giant creature
Japanese dojo/temple
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 theatre
Moving train
Museum
New York City
North pole
Nuclear reactor
Ocean park (à la "Sea World")
Ocean surface
Office building
Oil refinery
Opera house
Oriental temple/dojo
Palace
Park
Pirate ship/town
Playground
Police station
Prehistoric village/caves ...
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