Locations

Marvel's Wolverine is a globe-trotting campaign built from several purpose-made areas rather than one open map. Marcus Smith has tied that to the character: Logan is not anchored to a home city, so the game moves through a lot of smaller areas instead of one big open world. See Story and Setting.

Telambang

Telambang is where the game starts. Team X infiltrates a Bolivar Trask facility there to free Nathaniel Essex, and Logan fights through Reaver forces and a run-in with Omega Red to reach him. The area is presented as wilds around the facility rather than a settlement. See Enemies and Factions.

Canada

The frosted Canadian wilderness is one of the game's headline settings, and Insomniac has been specific about where in Canada it is. Marcus Smith has ruled out Alberta directly and said the game is mostly West Coast, and has confirmed outright that the team decided to use Vancouver for one of the mission areas.

Landmarks identified in the extended gameplay footage back that up: North Vancouver, the sulphur pile on the waterfront, Canada Place, the Vancouver Lookout at Harbour Centre, and Squamish named on highway signage. Smith confirmed the sulphur pile directly, noting how confusing it is to see a giant yellow pile like that.

The research ran the other way round from how it might look. Insomniac chose the settings for narrative fit first and then researched them, helped by the fact that art director Gavin Goulden lives in British Columbia. One reference photograph of the sulphur pile came from an artist's holiday.

The same extended gameplay footage contains a highway set piece in which Logan slashes tyres, hurls enemies, and leaps between vehicles while fighting Reavers and Brutes. An earlier mission set in Vancouver also features a Sentinel, which in-game dialogue presents as a smaller version of the Sentinel Prototype fought later.

Trask's makeshift town

One previewed area is a fake town Trask built for one of his sadistic experiments. It plays as a stealth section in which Logan destroys Trask's generators, moving through claustrophobic house interiors between them. See Combat for how stealth works.

Tokyo

Official material names the narrow streets of Tokyo as one of the campaign's settings, and The Hand are the faction associated with that part of the story. Very little else has been shown. The accessibility options include a Single Language Audio toggle that swaps dialogue spoken in other languages to match the chosen voice language, which is consistent with sections set in Japan.

Madripoor

Madripoor is the island nation Insomniac describes as having high and low districts. Logan spends time in Lowtown, and the chase sequences here are among the most-shown parts of the game.

The rooftop chase runs over railings, across gaps between buildings, and along ziplines with the markets running below. Previews describe the area as scoped up into a couple of detailed city blocks rather than an open district, which fits the game's linear structure. A glowing red trail marks the route during a chase.

Princess Bar

The Princess Bar in Lowtown is Logan's preferred watering hole and, after the first act, a walkable hub. You can explore it room by room, talk to the people in it, and find easter eggs, and it is the setting for the Never Have I Ever scene with Mystique and for Sabretooth body-slamming Logan. It is run by Tyger Tiger.

Nightmare locations

A separate set of spaces sits outside the campaign's geography. Nightmare Doors transport Logan to a dreamlike cabin and then into timed trials that reimagine real locations from the game as vertical dreamscapes. They reuse the world rather than adding to it.