With the NFL recently giving EA Sports the exclusive video game rights to its players and teams for its popular Madden series, competitors of the game are having to get creative when it comes to producing market-worthy football scenarios. And not only that, they’re going way over the top…
A recent SI piece let’s us know about “Blitz: The League,” a new game from Midway that sounds about half Madden, and half “Grand Theft Auto”- combining football with such off-field elements as groupies, gambling, and drug use. Oh yea- and the Atlanta’s team quarterback is named Ron Mexico. So it should go without saying that the game’s cover features Lawrence Taylor.
But that’s nothing compared to proposed competitor game “Road to Sunday”- in which, SI says, “players must save their owner, who’s in debt to a mysterious Jamaican mobster.” That game, mercifully, has been kiboshed by its manufacturer.
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 24, 2005 10:45 PM