This might get a little strange, so fasten your seatbelt. J Let’s talk about the world of Red Steel 2 a little.

Caldera is a city in what is generally known as the “Nevada Territories”. It’s kinda northwest of Las Vegas, off the beaten path a bit, in what’s affectionately known as the “High Desert” (a.k.a. the Mojave Desert) – an elevated, hot, flat, chunk of the Rocky Mountains.

The land surrounding Caldera is named “Caldera County” as well – one can imagine that they were a bit low on ideas for names when they settled the area, and the big frickin’ crater was the most interesting landmark (a “caldera”, for the curious, is another word for a big sinkhole or crater).

So, no, Caldera isn’t the whole land (by which I think you mean “the world”? if not, let me know). The “world” of Red Steel 2 is the Red West.

In fact, “the Red West” is a phrase used to describe the whole western part of North America… although we haven’t been talking about that kind of thing very much. It’s a name that was earned during the period before and during World War II (which went a little bit differently ‘there’ than it did ‘here’)… but I’ve also been using it as the “world” name for Red Steel 2.

But of course. The whole story takes place in and around the city of Caldera, and there’s a lot of different kinds of environments in that place. Ancient temples, ramshackle slums, desert, huge modern freight-moving systems… it’s a real city. Then you’ll roll on out into surrounding canyons, where you’ll find a pueblo-style mining town, a huge semi-automated strip mine, old, abandoned underground tunnels, an ancient ancestral monastery / temple clinging to the side of a cliff…

Yep. But if you mean “do you go anywhere cold, like the moon or something” the answer is no.