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Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring

So there you have it…now the ball is firmly in your court. Are you interested in playing what is perhaps the very best 3-D fighting game available today for the Playstation? Well if the answer if yes, then I suggest you haul your ass down to the store and pick up Ehrgeiz right now. The graphics will totally blow you away, the sound effects and music are top notch and the gameplay is really second to none. While the game does have a few minor flaws, it is easily right up there with the best the Playstation has to offer in fighting games…and that company includes Tekken 3…'nuff said.

Many call this game a "Final Fantasy Fighter" which what it sort of is, because the game features 5 FF7 characters, including Sephiroth, Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie (secret) , Vincent (secret). The game features over 15 characters, multi level stages, mini games, an RPG mode a'la Tobal no.1 but a lot better.

Overall EHRGEIZ is a challenging game which will offer you hundreds of hours of intense gameplay. I've already logged more than 70 hours on this game and have only finished the Ring Mode with the 11 main characters, completed 12 dungeon levels and set a few records in each of the mini-games. There is still plenty more to see and do not to mention the dozens of hidden secrets just waiting to be discovered and unlocked. Just completing the tasks to unlock the third set of costumes will easily take me another 20 hours, so I'd better get back to work.

OK, Ehrgeiz is a disappointment. I would have rather been able to buy Tobal 2 without the excessive import price tag, than buy Ehrgeiz. But, while not the best fighter on the block, Ehrgeiz has a number of good things going for it. After players zip through the piece-of-cake single-player fighting mode, the game has what it takes to content in the overall entertainment category. Two-player fighting is good enough fun, and will take up a lot of your time, but the simple little Mini Games are good enough to be games on their own.

Un jeu de baston qui bénéficie d'une très bonne note technique mais qui aurait pu grandement gagner avec une maniabilité plus simple et un mode Quête plus difficile. Bien mais pas top :)

Ehrgeiz es un juego de lucha interesante, con buenas ideas y personajes carismáticos y atractivos (sobretodo los de FFVII), pero como juego de lucha es poco profundo y posee una jugabilidad poco ajustada debido a las 3D. Si te gustan mucho los juegos de lucha, este título puede interesarte, pero no esperes un Tekken porque no tiene nada que ver. Ehrgeiz es más bestia y menos técnico, y basa gran parte de su atractivo en sus personajes y ambientación.

Ehrgeiz: God Bless The Ring mag je wat mij betreft rustig skippen. Alleen kopen als je echt zeker weet dat je niet gelukkig kan zijn zonder deze Final Fantasy fighter. Voor de rest geldt: God Bless the aan-en-uit knop.

Det är välgjort och i synnerhet 3D-grafiken och bildhastigheten imponerar. Men bredden gör ocjså att det saknar djup och livslängden är alltför kort för att det ska vara ett riktigt bra köp.

If you're looking for eye candy, Ehrgeiz will give you plenty of cavities.