The game is about touge racing, made especially popular during the 2000s by media such as Initial D and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

During the day, the player participates in legally sanctioned races and time trials to earn money.

The player can buy a used or new stock car, tune it with aerodynamic and engine parts, and get sponsorships which pay more money.

The player, depending on the first three letters of the name they enter,[1] which would correspond to the first three digits, starts with anywhere between 1,700,000 and 2,990,000 CP to buy a car.

Hakone and Haruna return from the original game, while several new locations, like Shiga Kusatsu, Hiroshima, Nikko and Mount Rokkō (divided into two roads, Ura and Omote) were added.

Several body modification changes were made, with the ability to add mudflaps, custom hoods and spoilers, as well as carbon fiber parts.

In Conquest mode, the player has the ability to unlock some special cars as well to buy them, which have custom body kits, paint jobs, vinyls and rims.

Advanced Races have special medal prizes, which can unlock some new equipment, new cars and also short courses.

They are a group of thirteen drivers with high-performance cars, all of them having a distinctive yellow paint job and custom vinyls.

His vaunted FTO is tuned almost to perfection, and he continues to thwart the ambitions of those racers who would conquer Hakone.

- Yūya Takuma, aka World Supremacy (Dominator in EU & US version) : He holds numerous records in Hiroshima-Noroyama.

-Masaya Tendō, aka Metal Wizard (Alchemist in EU & US version) : He used to be fairly well known on the highway course at Omote Rokko, but he never really stood out.

This may not seem like a very big step up, but in the able hands of Asuka, who has always been good at handling powerful cars like this, the difference is obvious.

-Chōmei Jō (Nagaaki Jyo in US & EU version), aka New Moon : For the time being, he's the fastest racer on the new Shiga Kusatsu course.

Maybe it's because he's smarter than the rest of us... 4th Stage : -Kyōichi Imaizumi, the Absolute Emperor, aka Yeti Fang : Once known as the fastest man in Zao, he was knocked from his perch one day by a new racer who made it look easy against his Clio V6 Phase 2.

He show no interest in the up-and-coming talents of the racing world, focusing solely on improving himself and his car, his black-red Lancer Evolution III GSR.

[5] Regardless, the game has developed a large, yet spread out fan base among car enthusiasts, and has come to be seen as a cult classic.