Kao the Kangaroo Round 2 is a third-person perspective platform game about a young, cute, yellow kangaroo who saves animals from the evil Hunter and his colleagues. To get aboard Hunter's ship, the player must collect lots of coins scattered throughout the game. The main character can fight with boxing gloves and throw lethal boomerangs.
The game consists of 25 levels in 5 different worlds. Playing through the levels, the player must jump over platforms, make difficult leaps, and fight against 30 different types of enemies. They also help free captured friends and solve many puzzles. Occasionally, Kao gets to ride a vehicle like a barrel or a snowmobile.
Kao can find purple crystals, which can be spent to buy minigames to play. There are also stars - collecting 50 of them upgrades one of Kao's abilities, such as giving him the ability to stomp on the ground to defeat enemies around him. A rarely encountered item is a winged helmet, which allows Kao to fly for a short while when grabbed.
Kao the Kangaroo Round 2 was released for the Xbox console on April 15th, 2003, and belongs to the Action & Adventure genre.