AEW: Fight Forever

I never wrote a review for this slop..... let's fix that. First and foremost, this game is abandonware. Don't expect any roster updates or online multiplayer to function. Even when this wasn't abandoned, the roster was outdated AT LAUNCH, with both main eventers just not being in the game, and guys who had already long since left the company still being playable. For some ungodly reason, the washed up boomers at the helm really liked No Mercy (A mid wrestling game from 2000) and decided that Fight Forever needed to have even less depth than that game. The actual wrestling is so-so at best, and at worst strikes and grapples just refuse to register, same can be said for reversals. The character customization is laughably shallow. Day of reckoning 2 came out 18 years prior to Fight Forever and was better in every conceivable way. You get to listen to some of the wrestlers' theme music, but the menu music is slop Max Caster sh@t out in about 13 minutes and sounds like it was recorded in dude's bathroom. If this game came out this year, I wouldn't have batted an eye if someone told me the menu music was AI generated. The match types can get pretty goofy, and the minigames are equally goofy, but after a while, it gets repetitive fast, and in the big 26, there's no reason to come back to this game, it isn't even worth pi-[redacted]-ing.

Отличная игра, не похожая на wwe.

3 years still bad

if you can buy it here or find a key online of the base game for real cheap, and then join the modding discord which has tools to get all the DLC for free, plus gameplay changes, new arenas and new parts to add more wrestlers through CAW including moveset profiles, this game's 1000% worth it if you want a modern arcade-style wrestling game. otherwise, don't bother paying $40 for this.

There is no tutorial for controls except a very few pop ups in our first match. The controls also suck. Matches are pretty boring, only lasting 3-4 minutes. Tag team matches just suck the ringside partner just keeps breaking pinfall (unless you knock him out first) without any limitations. Handicap matches are unplayable. Initially I thought story was looking good in Road to Elite (Season) Mode but that too just turned out not too be that interesting. There's just a lot of problem with the battle system as well but I still liked the concept of workouts, injuries, motivation system included in the game so I am still going to play it for a bit longer and would still recommend to buy this on butt cheap discount as you will still be able to get some value out of this game at its lowest discount prices. (Bonus: The roaster also felt pretty small to me but it's still playable and a good distraction from those repeating WWE 2k games).

A pesar de que me gustan los juegos tipo PS2 de luchas como los WWE SvR y otros, y de que me gusta AEW como empresa de lucha, este juego simplemente no es bueno. Hay muchas cosas que faltan, que son poco pulidas, los modos de juego son mediocres, ni siquiera esta todo el roster en su momento, sus herramientas de creación no son buenas y no tiene para compartir personajes de la comunidad. Me duele mucho, pero se entiende bastante que esto fue un fracaso.

Aside from the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that is the overpriced DLC and just generally non-existant content, why is the game just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful? How is it I can do 2 finishers to an opponent and I can't counter strikes OR grapples and as soon as said opponent does 1 move I get pinned for the 3 count? This hasn't only happened once this has happened at least 5 times by now with multiple different characters, this game is ♥♥♥♥, the developers are ♥♥♥♥ and that's the end of it.