Battle Arena Toshinden

It 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).

The game 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 heavy abuse.

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.

The balance of the game was further tweaked with a re-release called "Toshinden 2 plus" in Japan.