The game features then three time NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon.

[3] Set in the year 2012,[4] Jeff Gordon XS Racing lets the player drive a "next-generation" stock car against 39 other drivers (four other drivers in the Game Boy version), and any damage that the car sustains will repair itself.

The game has a time trial mode, where the player can practice and try to achieve their fastest lap on the track.

[5] The game has a championship mode, where the player takes part in a ten-race series.

[10][11] Daniel Erickson of NextGen called the PC version a "well conceived yet repetitive effort [that] lands squarely toward the back of the pack.