Kenny Omega recently gave wrestling fans an update on the eagerly awaited video game, AEW Fight Forever.
AEW announced its video game projects in November 2020. Alongside the two mobile games, AEW Casino: Double or Nothing and AEW Elite General Manager, they released a trailer for the upcoming console game.
Since then sporadic updates, gameplay footage, and roster members have been unveiled followed by the announcement that the game is expected to be available for fans in September of this year.
During an in-depth interview with Fightful, Omega spoke about the game and all of the challenges that came with the creative and design process:
“It’s great that people are excited, that makes me happy. It was really challenging because I wasn’t sure what I could do, what I would be able to do. From a creative design standpoint, how I communicate my ideas, are they going to be understood? Is it going to be too off the wall? Are my ideas too broad, too grandiose for the budget? These are things I never knew going into the project.
It’s now to the point where we’ve talked about what we can do and what we have the time and budget for. Now, it’s almost time for me to find something else within this project to do because the creative process is almost complete where, we know how the matches will flow, we know some of the systems, we know the action and reaction type stuff.
It’s now in a process of being tuned and finely tuned from there. Still, a lot of stuff to implement, but our guys at Yuke’s are working at a blistering pace. It’s incredible the amount they are doing within a 24-hour period. It just seemed like, out of nowhere, a light switch went off and they went into hyper mode.
They’re working real fast. Some of the stuff we were worried might be on the cutting room floor is now getting implemented. It was a challenge to attempt to make a brand new wrestling game, from the ground up, during the COVID era.
It was very challenging. It got to a point where it seemed bleak and maybe we would never release this thing, but we kind of got past that, and with the go-getters at Yuke’s and the guys on our side and Geta [Hideyuki “Geta” Iwashita] and his old contacts that have hopped on board and helped push us to the finish line we, hopefully, can be on schedule to make sure we get this game out by this year. Hopefully. Fingers crossed,”
Although there is no official release date for the game, it was recently reported that the game has a tentative internal release date of late September. There is said to still be plenty of work to be done, but a September 2022 release is the target.
You can follow updates on all things AEW Fight Forever here at Inside The Ropes or by following AEW Games.