10 Ups & 4 Downs For AEW: Fight Forever - REVIEW

AEW: Fight Forever is finally here... and here's what we thought about it!

by Andrew Pollard
AEW Fight Forever Sting Orange Cassidy
THQ Nordic

It may have taken a little while longer than we all expected, but AEW: Fight Forever is finally here.

All Elite Wrestling's first foray into video games, Fight Forever has been developed and published by the tried and tested hands of Yuke's and THQ Nordic, respectively. Promising to pull plentiful from beloved offerings such as WWF No Mercy and the early SmackDown games, hope has been high that AEW could deliver something nostalgic yet fresh with this venture.

Having played the PlayStation 5 version of Fight Forever for a week or more by this point, that's given ample opportunity to try out the various game modes, match types, creation centre, and experience playing as a whole slew of different #AllElite favourites. The question is, though, does Fight Forever deliver the goods?

Before getting fully into this review, it's worth stressing that the online features of AEW: Fight Forever were not available at the time of writing. As such, it's obviously impossible to comment on the servers and mechanics of this element of the game.

With that in mind, then, here are the pros and the cons of a game which AEW fans are desperate to love, and which those blinded haters are hoping to see fail.

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is co-host of the Fearless in Devotion podcast, which won the Club Podcast of the Year gong at the 2024 FSA Awards.