Ehrgeiz

Ehrgeiz
PAL region cover art
Developer(s)DreamFactory
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Seiichi Ishii
Producer(s)Hirohide Sugiura
Designer(s)Seiichi Ishii
Artist(s)Tetsuya Nomura
Composer(s)
Platform(s)
Release
  • Arcade
    • JP: March 1998
    • NA: March 1998
  • PlayStation
    • JP: December 17, 1998
    • NA: May 4, 1999
    • PAL: February 8, 2000
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemNamco System 12

Ehrgeiz (エアガイツ, Eagaitsu; German: [ˈeːɐ̯ɡaɪ̯ts] "Ambition"), fully titled Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring, is a fighting game developed by DreamFactory and published by Namco in 1998 for arcades. It was developed as a partnership between Square and DreamFactory. It was ported to the PlayStation, where Square released it internationally while Sony Computer Entertainment published it in Japan, a direct inversion of the companies' usual publishing deal.

The game includes characters from Final Fantasy VII: Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart – which are playable in both versions; Sephiroth, Yuffie Kisaragi, Vincent Valentine, and Zack Fair – which were added to the PlayStation's roster exclusively.