Road to Sunday

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Road to Sunday is an American football video game developed by 989 Sports for the PlayStation 2.

As of July 20, 2005, Road to Sunday has been cancelled. [1]

[edit] History

It is the successor to NFL GameDay which could no longer use NFL Teams or Players due to the fact that EA Sports acquiring the exclusive rights to the NFL for the subsequent five years for Madden NFL. Road to Sunday revolves around Blake Doogan, who inherits a pro football team after his father is killed in a suspicious explosion while in Jamaica. Later Blake learns that his father borrowed large sums of money from a Jamaican kingpin to purchase the professional football team The Los Angeles Show, and Doogan’s father’s debt is now his debt. The gameplay follows the Blake, his friend/sidekick Harry and seven football players as they put it all on the line in order to get enough money to payoff the kingpin and win the championship. The on-the-field football experience is best characterized as mission-based football, done through the introduction of a new gameplay experience, Position Specific Gameplay (PSG). Players not only compete on the gridiron, but also gain exposure to an underworld of questionable characters, gambling, and an underground fighting league ran by the corrupt Jamaican kingpin. These off-field exploitations will drive the storyline as well as increase players’ abilities to perform in future missions and impact the outcome of future football games.