7 Things We Learned From AEW’s Fight Forever Reveal
6. Crowd Models Have Been Redone
Anyone who paid attention to the game's earliest teasers could tell you that the crowds looked seriously rough. Being brutally honest, they were more akin to those cardboard-style walls of muddy pixels from the first few SmackDown titles than anything befitting modern hardware.
Good news: Yuke's has been hard at work.
They've remodelled live crowds so that fans are actually 3D characters. That's a relief. Evil Uno mentioned in passing that live audiences around ringside had been reworked, and that was visible during gameplay footage of Kris Statlander vs. Nyla Rose. There also seems to be much greater variety on offer too.
Fight Forever won't take the old SmackDown vs. Raw approach of repeating the same four or five people across multiple rows either. There will be repeat models, of course (because these characters are background dressing), but everything seems a lot more immersive on the whole.
Again, what a relief. The cardboard cutouts were never going to work.