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

1. Creation Suite

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For some gamers, the Creation Suite is likely to be the most disappointing element of AEW: Fight Forever.

By this point in time, we've all become accustomed to having an extensive, ultra-realistic Creation Suit that can be used to bring a slew of characters to life. Even better, there are a whole bunch of talented creators who will make incredibly accurate depictions of grapplers available for us less-talented folk to download at our leisure.

Where Fight Forever is concerned, this is a vastly different beast to what we've become used to.

This isn't to say that the Creation Suite isn't fun to explore, but it does very much feel like stepping into a time warp that's taken you back 20 years. Upon firing up this side of Fight Forever for the first time, you have just eight male face templates to choose from, or bafflingly only four female face templates. In terms of customisations, you can change eye colour, eyebrows, choose one of 17 male hairstyles of 12 female hairstyles, and there are eight facial hair possibilities for the men. And that's it.

Similarly, body types, attires and accessories offer up a fairly minimal selection of options. However, there is a vast array of moves available to choose from when creating the moveset for your custom grappler.

Fight Forever also allows you to create your own arena, but this again is all very basic, making it pretty much impossible to recreate your favourite stage setups and ringside areas of yesteryear.

As of this writing, Fight Forever doesn't allow you to upload or download creations. So, don't be thinking your naff CAW can be replaced by a fantastic creation some genius online has made. Whatever creations you have on your game will be of your own making.

The Creation Suite here feels very much designed for you to make your own custom fighter on a beat 'em up, rather than for you to replicate wrestlers from the past or from other promotions.

That said, it is rather cool that any of your creations get the famed #AllElite graphic.

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