AEW Fight Forever: 14 Tiny Details That'll Blow Your Mind
The most detailed pro wrestling video game in YEARS.
All Elite Wrestling is a promotion rich in detail.
The Tony Khan-fronted group operates on a tease basis, where by implementing a glut of covert teases, the promotion builds up its characters, storylines, and programming. Such teases and Easter eggs are part of the foundation upon which AEW sits - so of course they've translated over to AEW Fight Forever, the promotion's first console video game, too.
Hitting shelves on Thursday, June 29, the Yuke's-developed and THQ Nordic-published title was met with marginally positive reviews. The gameplay isn't refined and the game itself isn't blow-away great, BUT it needn't be; WWE 2K typically achieves this on an annual basis.
The refined gameplay that is, not being blow-away great.
What AEW Fight Forever does, though, is it provides gamers with an alternative - and a fun alternative at that. You won't be loading up Fight Forever to play a five-star chain wrestling classic, but you will be loading it up to have a night of silly fun with your mates by skateboard-Swanton Bombing them, blowing them up with a kerosene tank, and beating the ever-living crap out of them because the reversal button is incapable of being timed correctly.
But have you spotted these details yet?
14. Entrance Props Can Be Swapped
Between Chris Jericho's baseball bat, Hikaru Shida's kendo stick, and the few preset entrances that fall under the category, AEW Fight Forever features gobs of weapon-based entrances to make characters appear bada**.
But did you know you can swap these items out?
Heading into the create-an-entrance tab presents you with the option to swap the baseball bat, the kendo stick, or indeed any weapon for one of the 40-plus weaponry on offer. Unfortunately, despite the tab appearing throughout every entrance, it appears to be only the weapon-centric entrances that this actually applies to, meaning you can't have Abadon spit blood on-stage while holding a 'wet floor' stand or Malakai Black make his unearthly entrance while holding a ladder, but you can make Chris Jericho and Hikaru Shida become pizza delivery drivers, so yay?