This is Sega's sequel to the first Jet Set Radio, which appeared exclusively on the Sega Dreamcast. The sequel is better graphically, and more challenging, but is overall a better game.

The control in this game is suberb, and the characters control equally as well. The right trigger is used for spray painting graffiti, the left trigger does nothing, the Y button has your skater turn around backwards, the A button has them jump, the B button has, the X button has, the White button has, the Black button has, and the left joystick moves your character around the levels. For this game to be the least bit entertaining, the control had to be almost perfect, if not perfect, to enable the player to do the complex things they are required to. Thankfully, Sega created an excellent control scheme and it works well with the game.

The gameplay in this game is incredibly addicting, and is equally fun. For the most part, you go around and spray paint over the other gang's graffiti, or paint all new graffiti on the walls of the levels. To enable you to know where to spray paint, they put an arrow over each area that requires one spray can of paint. Some of the graffiti areas require many cans and a couple only require three to four. They also have added a few races etc. to have you do other things besides spray paint. You also have plenty of choices when deciding on who you want to skate with, but I can't really tell the difference between the skaters abilities even though the bars show a difference. This time around they supplied plenty of spray paint so you basically never run out. Everywhere you turn you find more of it, and they put it in strategic locations, such as when you are grinding up around this dragon, you must boost to get to the top, but as you use up the spray paint boosting, you pick up more as you go up. They also have multiplayer games for 2 players, such as racing to checkpoints, and several other games that are pretty fun to play.

The sound effects in this game are very well-done. The skating noises sound very realistic, and the voice-overs for each character are done pretty well. The music is alright, but it suits this game and the setting pretty well. Some of the songs are fine to listen to, but then there are the songs where they just get on your nerves after two seconds of listening to them. This one particular song just has a person screaming words that don't have anything to do with anything, and because it is so loud, it is hard to make out the words. Yet again, this game doesn't support the playback of ripped songs on your hard drive, which is a bad thing because your own songs playing during this game would just make it awesome to play.

This game's cel shaded graphics excede the first one's, and are still amazing. Another great thing is how they incorporate so many moving things with the humongous size of the levels, and still have no slow down. They also have lens flare when you look up towards the sun in a certain way, and the character's trick animations are amazingly well-done for a game that isn't focused on tricks. The lighting and sparks from the character's skates looks as realistic as possible when in a game with cel-shaded graphics.

I would say this is a good game to buy and is definitely one of the better games on this system. It will take you a good amount of time to beat, and is incredibly fun.