The city is yours !
Graphics: As a launch game you cannot expect to much from it, some of it's bad atitudes are for example heavy flickering, both texture and aliasing as well as low texture resolution and. But on the other side, models, cars and tracks are top, not only detail level but also the design. For example, the typical skyline of the city feels like Tokio
The sound it self is very good, some may say that those techno beats are to much but anyway this game was the first game to ofer some kind of simulated radio chatter(GTA3) on PS2.
Gameplay and rest: So what do we have, a classical masterpiece of dying fenre, the arcade racer, as I said before high speed duel, most of all because of the great track design given you a great impression of cruising through a japanese city.
You can spend hours on getting all those cool cars even though that it ain't that much and the difficulty is just currect.