Battle Arena Toshinden is the first sequel to Battle Arena Toshinden .
The game adds three new starting fighters; Tracy and Chaos with the original game's final boss, Gaia returning un-armoured and with a completely new move set. There are also three new bosses and hidden characters raising the total number of fighters to 15 (up from 10).
Battle Arena Toshinden also adds several running attacks to each character: the ability to strike a grounded opponent with new ground attacks and the powerful Overdrive attacks that one must fill up a bar by using other attacks to be able to use.
Battle Arena Toshinden does away with the free-form combo system of the original replacing it with a simple combo system (i.e. light attack, hard attack, special or light attack, light attack, hard attack, special). The 3D movement has also been made notably slower to prevent the heavy abuse it could be used for in the original.
As a result, while the core game play is similar, this sequel is more tactical than the original game. Opponents are able to capitalize on individual missed attacks.
Battle Arena Toshinden is more balanced than its predecessor. This balance was further tweaked with a re-release called "Toshinden 2 plus" in Japan.
The game was released for the Playstation console in 1995-09-09 .
Battle Arena Toshinden is a Fighting game and was released on the Playstation console.