Ehrgeiz [Arcade] - play as Rio (unused)

Описание: This is a playthrough using Rio in the Arcade version of Ehrgeiz: God Bless The Ring. Read on below for more information...

Rio is an unused gameplay character in the game. Therefore he is an unplayable character.

===== ABOUT RIO =====

Rio normally only appears in the Ranking screen sequence for Jo. In this sequence, he gets chased around in circles by Jo in her wolf form. Aside from this, Rio does not appear anywhere else in the game.

===== GAMEPLAY =====

As you can see in the video, Rio is a canine being. He is yet another clone of Django, but he does not have the special moves that Django has. This makes him a really weak character, even worse than Django.

===== ADDITIONAL INFORMATION =====

---- His "specials" are of him just barking, and these moves cannot hurt the opponent.

---- On the character select screen, he uses Django's image portrait with no name text.

---- After you beat the game and enter your initials, on the Results screen he uses Django's image portrait and "RIO" as his name.

---- He can appear on the high score/time ranking screen with an [?] image icon.

---- "Ehrgeiz" is a German word, and it means "ambition". It's pronounced as "air-geitz", not "ur-guyz". =)

===== ABOUT EHRGEIZ =====

Ehrgeiz is a 3D fighting game developed by Dream Factory, who are the creators of the Tobal games and the company are a subsidiary of Squaresoft (not sure about now). Namco published the game for the Arcades.

The game does not use the typical versus fighting game controls, instead it uses a free roaming 360 degree movement system where you can move around the arena, much like the one found in Power Stone and wrestling games. As well as that, there are also changes in elevation in arenas and you can interact with certain objects, most notably the boxes. Breaking the boxes releases power-up type items and even a knife weapon.

Interestingly, there are elements in the game that are based on Tekken... such as the main character Godhand, whose real name is Ken Mishima (no relation apparently lol), having moves from Kazuya, Heihachi, Paul and Baek from Tekken. Also, if you study some of the fighting animations of some of the characters, they are rather Tekken-like... for example some of the jump kicks.