AEW Fight Forever has plenty of WWE moves available, from John Cena’s AA to Brock Lesnar’s F5.
In the wrestling world, there are always opportunities to pay homage to your friends and rivals, even if they happen to be working for a different company. While neither AEW or WWE will explicitly mention each other in their products, the video games are able to more directly reference some of the competitor’s roster – not to mention, there are often times when different wrestlers use the same popular moves.
WWE 2K23 has a fair share of AEW wrestlers’ signature moves, and AEW Fight Forever is no different, with a bunch of iconic moves from WWE wrestlers selectable for your custom characters.
Will run you through every WWE finisher in AEW Fight Forever.
Finishing moves are how you win matches in AEW Fight Forever, but you’ll need to know how to use them first.
If you want to put your opponent away for the three-count in AEW Fight Forever, then you’re going to need to earn a finisher. These climactic moves are typically the strongest (and coolest) move in a wrestler’s arsenal and bring the match to a close.
You can build up to signatures simply by gaining momentum and beating down your opponent, but it takes an extra step to turn it into a finisher. We’ll tell you how to get a finisher in AEW Fight Forever, and how to put it to good use.
It’s been a long journey for AEW: Fight Forever, but one that will finally end in late June.
After a lengthy development cycle and plenty of speculation regarding its launch, the AEW: Fight Forever video game finally has its release date nailed down.
As revealed in a press release today, THQ Nordic GmbH and AEW announced that AEW: Fight Forever will be available on Thursday, June 29. The launch date is just a few days later than the June 27 date reported by Fightful Select and its sources last week.
Kenny Omega, who has worked closely with the team at Yuke’s who created the game, was featured in a short video confirming the date.
“When I first signed with AEW, Tony Khan gave me the opportunity to assemble the best gaming team that understands and respects professional wrestling, to make the best wrestling games ever,” Omega said in a press release. “Thanks to our incredible collaboration with Geta, YUKE’s and THQ
Nordic, a new era of professional wrestling gaming is quickly approaching. AEW: Fight Forever has exceeded my highest expectations, and I’m confident that June 29 will be a momentous day for wrestling fans and gamers alike.”
Fight Forever is said to take its inspiration from WWF No Mercy and other past wrestling titles in terms of its gameplay and aesthetic, which should make for a more arcade-style experience. Today’s press release touted a number of features already heavily reported to be part of the game, including a variety of match types (with Falls Count Anywhere and Exploding Barbed Wire Death Matches sure to be popular), a Career Mode, customization options for wrestlers, move-sets, entrances, teams and arenas, and online multiplayer.
AEW: Fight Forever will release on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Nintendo Switch, and we’ll have more on the game here on Wrestling Junkie closer to its release.
The wait for AEW Fight Forever should be over early this summer.
Though jokes can certainly be made bout waiting forever for AEW Fight Forever to finally make its way to the eager hands of wrestling fans and gamers, it appears the wait is down to just a little over a month.
Fightful Select (subscription required but well worth it) says it has been able to confirm that the AEW Fight Forever release date will be Tuesday, June 27. That follows on the heels of reporting from Mike Straw of Insider Gaming, whose sources told him the launch would be around the time of Forbidden Door — which takes place Sunday, June 25.
Unlike WWE’s 2K series of video games, Fight Forever is intended to be a game that releases once and is updated as it goes as opposed to something with a new, full-priced release each year. Its aesthetic is influenced by popular video games of the past, including WWF No Mercy for the Nintendo 64, but updated for today’s more powerful consoles and PCs.
Fightful Select added that people working on the game say “it plays very smoothly” while adding that there are some “limitations with the create-a-wrestler” feature.
Providing the information is on point, an official announcement from AEW and its partners should come soon. We’ll certainly be hitting the sticks along with the rest of the community that’s been waiting for AEW Fight Forever to release, which it will do on current and last-gen PlayStation and Xbox consoles, Nintendo Switch and PC.
