AEW busted through the door like a bat outta hell, setting the wrestling world ablaze with a new promotion to provide an alternative to the WWE. They have been very successful in their quest to be a top tier promotion and seem to be doing everything right as far as growing regarding their shows and Pay Per Views. One area where they have a ways to go to catch up the WWE is within the video game space. The recently released their initial game AEW Fight Forever and I took this past weekend to play quite a bit to gather some thoughts on the game. This is our AEW Fight Forever Review.
The Roster
AEW Fight Forever has a roster out of the box that definitely shows the time it has taken to produce and release this game. Let’s start with Cody Rhodes still in the game, as he has been gone from AEW for almost a year and a half. There are notable misses who will hopefully be added to the game via DLC (hopefully free but we know how that goes) such as Jamie Hayter, The Acclaimed and Samoa Joe. There are also a very limited number of female talent in the wrestlers pool so if you want to run through the women of AEW you will need to wait for more to be added to the game.
Style, Matches and Modes
The style and presentation of the game is a call back to the wrestling games like WCW/nWo Revenge where the characters are a little more cartoony and disproportional and the move set is not rocket science but just a few taps. The game modes you have are exhibition where you can have a 1 on 1 match, 2 on 2, 3 way, 4 way, Casino Battle Royal, Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match, Ladder Match and the Mini Games. Online mode which is broken down into ranked, casual and private. Side note, I had problems on Xbox finding a 1 on 1 match and gave up after a bit. The final mode is Road to the Elite. The Road to the Elite mode is the closest thing that there is to a career mode and it is a 1 year run. You are not able to choose the direction you want to go with your character other than a couple of choose your opponent scenarios. It is broken down into 4 blocks for each of the 4 main pay per view events that AEW runs. In block 1, I wont the tag team titles and turned on my opponent and it was never mentioned again in the story.
Where is career mode!!!! If this game is a game that I would become invested in, it will definitely need a career mode. You start off at the bottom and work your way up the AEW ladder battling making choices along the way of which belts or directions you want to go. This is needed for this to be more than a casual game you put on every now and then to beat someone up.
The create mode is pretty robust yet lacking at the same time. You have 3 option, Create A Wrestler, Create A Team or Create an Arena. When you create your wrestler, you have limited styles of hair to make your character truly unique. Also, the clothing and ring attire leave something out as well. There is no ability to really get into the weeds to customize your outfits and really make your created wrestler your own.
Final Thoughts
As I was going through the AEW Fight Forever Review, it does sound like a pretty negative review. I will say that while you are in a match it is pretty fun but without a more robust create a wrestler mode and a career mode the game will be relegated to ehh I am bored I will throw on AEW and wrestle a few matches. I think if they can come out with a career mode and the Road to the Elite is your start of this mode that would be more beneficial to the game. It is fun and has those nostalgic callbacks to the heavily favored N64 wrestling games, it does fall a bit short.
Our score for this is a 5.5 out of 10 as it currently sits.
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