Experimental Playground

The Experimental Playground is a stage in Dead or Alive 4, featured in Hitomi and Jann Lee's story modes. A seemingly prehistoric area, the arena is lush with plants, trees and ferns, and includes a large number of dinosaurs running around, which can interact with the player in a similar way to the leopard in Savannah Safari. It is used in Hitomi and Jann Lee's story modes, where Hitomi is threatened by an adult Tyrannosaurus Rex after getting too close to its young. Before it can attack, however, Jann Lee rushes in, dispatching it with a kick to the head, followed by an uppercut. Hitomi, however, is not pleased by this, calling Jann Lee 'cruel' for attacking the Tyrannosaurus.

It is unknown as to why or how this stage was brought about. It can be assumed that this is perhaps some research project of DOATEC's working on cloning dinosaurs; however, no evidence to support this theory is seen in the game.

Another interesting point is that, despite a large number of the dinosaurs appearing to be velociraptors, they seem to be at perfect harmony with both the fighters and other dinosaurs, even when collided with by the characters. Taking the above theory, we can assume that perhaps, while the cloning has succeeded, DOATEC has yet to reawaken the ferocious instinct of these creatures; in terms of gameplay, it would have severly unbalanced the fight to have dinosaurs mugging the characters randomly!