It's possible to make your ship more nasty by shooting crates and flying over the powerups they release. These range from triple fire to laser cannons to missiles. While these have a specific lifespan and can't be recharged short of flying over the powerup again, your standard cannon can be reloaded by flying over a particular tile set into the floor, likewise with your shield. There are two styles of game, Arena and Course. In the Course game, the idea is to reach the exit placed somewhere in the level.
Some levels are puzzle-style, and others are just straight shooters.
You have until the end of your lives to shoot stuff and try to accumulate a decent score. Chase Ace 2 is probably the first game I've come across in about six months that doesn't need or even want a 3D card. The graphics suit the atmosphere of the game very nicely. Explosions, while looking a bit cartoonish, are suitably spectacular and the ships themselves are rather nicely rendered. The arenas themselves are nothing to really write home about, but they do fit the game nicely.