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I bought it a week after it was out on PS5 because I was heavy into WWF No Mercy. The gameplay is literally exactly the same. It's good, but it's the same. Models are rough. The arcade-y game is salvageable, to me it was actually very fun, but I completely understand why the majority of modern wrestling fans hated it. I know they wanted to make the game a throwback to the older games, and that's fine. The actual reason the game failed because they wanted this retro-esque rough looking mod for an N64 game to compete with mainline WWE games and they thought that $60 USD was an adequate price for it. It wasn't. Price was slashed in half a couple of months later, but by that point it was way too late. Had the game cost $30 on launch, or even less, it wouldn't have flopped as hard as it did. To be honest, the game is a solid representation of AEW as a whole and how they perceive themselves - titans with huge dreams that only need time to stick it to the mainstream, when in reality they are an extravagant, overconfident, money backed scrappy underdog passion project of a dude who loves wrestling, but fundamentally doesn't understand it.
