Īlso in Japan, Game Machine listed the arcade version in their Januissue as the seventh most-successful dedicated arcade game of the past year. John Gaudiosi of NextGen said that the former "offers plenty of eye candy and deep gameplay for dedicated, hardcore Ferrari aficionados." In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 29 out of 40 for the same console version, and 27 out of 40 for the latter one. Passione Rossa received "generally favorable reviews", while Ferrari F355 Challenge received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Yu Suzuki is a keen Ferrari enthusiast who allegedly used data from his own Ferrari 355 at certain tracks to implement in the game during its development. The radio DJ and the announcer are played by Alan J (Alan John Peppler), an American DJ who works at the Japanese radio station Bay FM. The game features an original soundtrack featuring Genki Hitomi and Minoru Niihara that mimics the style of 1980s hard rock/ heavy metal which is integrated into a radio station format during gameplay (some music was later reused for another AM2 game, Shenmue). The Dreamcast version has link cable play for direct competition however, as of January 2006, the online servers for F355 Challenge are now offline, and the website has gone offline. It also uses a real-time "Magic Weather" system similar to Shenmue. The game also allows the player to use an automatic transmission or paddle-shift the gears. The cabinet itself is composed of four NAOMI units: one for each of the three screens and one to sync them all. The three-screen cabinet version also features an H-shaped gear stick and three foot pedals, and presents a tough challenge to any player who decides to use them. Some versions of the arcade cabinet are noteworthy for having three screens, allowing the player to look through the side windows as they would in a real car. The game was considered the most accurate simulation of the F355 possible up until that time. The only model of car featured in the game is the Ferrari F355 Challenge model. It was developed by the AM2 division of Sega for the Sega Naomi Multiboard arcade system board under the direction of Yu Suzuki, and was later ported to the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 home video game consoles under the names F355 Challenge: Passione Rossa and Ferrari F355 Challenge respectively for both American and European releases. F355 Challenge is a racing simulation arcade video game based on the race car and Ferrari event.
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