Features:

Environments

• The Cathedral:
  This one starts off in the tower of a burnt-out cathedral.
• The Elevator
  One of the more simplified stages, this area is a giant mechanical platform moving downwards.
• The Opera House:
  The home of Helena, one of the new fighters. The brawling starts off on the theatre balcony, and if youÕre feeling frisky, you can toss someone off into the seating area below, where the carnage continues.
• The Wind Towers:
  Giant spinning fans and a raised platform make up this quasi-dull stage.
• The Arctic Plains:
  ItÕs sundown on a snowy plain, with ice-covered statues silently watching on from the background. ThereÕs a good two feet of snow here, and your charactersÕ feet sink into the ground as they walk about. Though it appears that the snowfield goes on forever, itÕs actually surrounded by a deep chasm that you can knock opponents into.
• The Japanese Garden:
  Serene lightning bugs and Japanese lamps highlight this serene-looking showcase for the NAOMI hardware.
• The City:
  A night-time cityscape stretches on behind the arena, which is surrounded by an enormous, glowing electric fence! There are also large televisions hanging from the ceiling.
• Generator Room:
  Reflective marble floors and volumetric lighting highlight this dark sub-basement.

Characters

• Ein:
  A kung-fu practitioner from Germany, similar to a dumbed-down Akira from VF3. It's fun to use this guy near the danger zones, as his strikes can quickly send opponents flying in the opposite direction.
• Helena:
  Helena uses an obscure soft-style martial art with its roots in Aikido, and has a large emphasis on attack reversals, similar to Lei-fang's Tai Chi system.
• Zack:
  Aside from new Thai-boxing attacks, Zack now sports a fluorescent green Mohawk, sunglasses that never get broken, and an extra, reflection-mapped "bug man" outfit.
• Tina:
  Tina is a character that you should stay far, far away from, and dealing out long-range attacks would be in any non-grappler's best interests.
• Bass:
  Bass is 100% Hollywood Hogan. But despite his massive bulk and over-the-top pro wrestling moves.
• Jann-Lee:
  This Jeet Kune Do practitioner has been powered up with a handful of cool-looking new attacks.
• Lei-Fang:
  Play as this Chinese lassie with a penchant for hard striking, head-over-heels attack reversals.
• Kasumi:
  New reversals make her a particularly risky foe to fight, and the CPU cheats like crazy when you play against her!
• Ayane:
  Kasumi's sister, and another misfit from the Playstation version of DoA. Quick, irritating, and always airborne, cheap Ayane players in Japanese arcades frequently find themselves clubbed with a sock full of tokens and tossed outside into a pile of discarded Tekken 2 ROMs.
• Gen-Fu:
  Any martial-arts game requires some type of old geezer to make incontinence jokes about, and Gen-Fu serves that purpose rather nicely. Using an internal fighting style, Gen-Fu could probably be deadly in the hands of an experienced player. Unfortunately, there are no experienced Gen-Fu players in Japan, because Gen-Fu sucks even worse than Bass.