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Bad Day L.A.

Also known as: Bad Day LA [UK]

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Plane crashes, zombie hordes and meteor showers; it's a bolt cutter to the face of bland mainstream culture.

Genre: Action
Release date: Apr 12, 2006
Published by: Enlight
Developed by: Enlight

Designer: American McGee
Multiplayer Modes:

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1 player SOLO

Latest Stories

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Xbox Feature - Jul 4, 2008

American McGee: The GamesRadar Interview (Part 2)

How does Bad Day LA's creator handle his legacy as a gaming god? He ignores it

Xbox Feature - Aug 18, 2006

American McGee: The GamesRadar Interview (Part 1)

Bad Day LA's master of disaster talks about laughing in the face of fear, crushing the City of...

Xbox Feature - Aug 18, 2006

American McGee's Bad Day L.A. hands-on

Can American McGee contend for the heavyweight satire champion? No - Jon Stewart still has that one...

Xbox Preview - Aug 8, 2006

Features

20 Most Rabidly Patriotic Games

And five more with absolutely no love for the red, white and blue

Jul 4, 2008

American McGee: The GamesRadar Interview (Part 2)

How does Bad Day LA's creator handle his legacy as a gaming god? He ignores it

Aug 18, 2006

American McGee: The GamesRadar Interview (Part 1)

Bad Day LA's master of disaster talks about laughing in the face of fear, crushing the City of...

Aug 18, 2006

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Previews

American McGee's Bad Day L.A. hands-on

Can American McGee contend for the heavyweight satire champion? No - Jon Stewart still has that one...

Aug 8, 2006

Fact: one in 1,368 readers will be struck and killed by a falling meteor while reading this. Okay, so that's not entirely true, but similarly absurd situations and scenarios jam the subversive, satirical action-title Bad Day LA way past chock-full. Rock star game designer American McGee pokes fun at our national pastimes of racism and classism during our Bush-Era culture war of fear - but does so using everything from a guy in a hamburger suit to toxic waste-spawned zombies. Our hands-on look ... » Read Full Bad Day L.A. preview

Bad Day L.A.

Plane crashes, zombie hordes and meteor showers; it's a bolt cutter to the face of bland mainstream...

Feb 24, 2006

The checkered history of Los Angeles suggests that on occasion it can help, ahem … redefine the concept of the human love/hate relationship. Even so, the city's seen nothing like this. In the third-person action game Bad Day L.A. you'll face missions involving plane crashes, zombie hordes, meteor showers, riots, a tsunami, an earthquake, and more. Crips vs. Bloods this is not. At the center is misanthrope and reluctant hero Anthony Williams. He's a former Hollywood agent so disenchanted ... » Read Full Bad Day L.A. preview

Bad Day LA

With sharp satire and a striking visual approach, this could represent a good day for gaming

Feb 15, 2006

We're used to gradual evolutions in gaming, be they in technical, graphical, even artistic fields. And you might have expected the same as gaming explores other new horizons, such as politics, current affairs, satire. But with Bad Day LA, American McGee has taken a tradition that had long since become dormant (in mainstream games at least), and has pushed it from a standing start to a racing finish. Taking on fistfuls of current taboos - terrorist attacks, immigration, obesity, tsunamis - it ... » Read Full Bad Day L.A. preview

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