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Bad Day L.A.

A satirical action game where a homeless man becomes an unwilling savior amid LA's disasters.

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The game was set for world release on September 6, 2006, but first appeared in a Polish magazine issue at the end of August 2006.[1] According to the review aggregator Metacritic, the video game Bad Day L.A. garnered "unfavorable" reviews.[2]

Making and release

American McGee was inspired to make the game after seeing a Homeland Security billboard about biochemical terrorism while in traffic.[3] The art duo Kozyndan was hired to give the game a humorous art style to offset its violent events.[4] Bad Day L.A. was exhibited at the 2005 E3 event.[5] Aspyr Media declared on August 22, 2006, that the game had reached gold status and would launch on August 28, despite an initial target of early 2006.[5]

MTV's website hosted a playable demo for the game.[5] There were plans for a graphic novel that would be based on the game as well as other projects by American McGee.[6]

What the cited sources add

GamesRadar ranked it as the 25th worst game ever made.[7]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Bad Day L.A." (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "CD-Action 09/2006: Bad Day L.A. na coverze – premiera!", August 2, 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Bad Day L.A." (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "American McGee Presents Bad Day LA Critic Reviews for PC", Metacritic (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Bad Day L.A." (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Adams, "American McGee Takes L.A.", IGN, April 28, 2005 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Bad Day L.A." (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Adams, "Bad Day L.A. Interview", IGN, June 8, 2005; GamesRadar Staff, "American McGee: The GamesRadar Interview (Part 1)", GamesRadar, August 19, 2006, p. 2; Edge_, "Bad Day LA", GamesRadar, February 16, 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Bad Day L.A." (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Park, "Bad Day LA E3 2005", GameSpot, May 24, 2005; Adams, "American McGee Takes L.A.", IGN, April 28, 2005; Sinclair, "Bad Day L.A. Imminent", GameSpot, August 22, 2006; Summa, "PC demo for Bad Day LA ready for download", Joystiq, August 15, 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Bad Day L.A." (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Miller, "American McGee to make graphic novels", Joystiq, August 12, 2005 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Bad Day L.A." (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: GamesRadar U.S., "GamesRadar's Anti-awards 2006", GamesRadar, January 16, 2007; Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, "Zero Punctuation: Alice: Madness Returns", July 6, 2011; "Worst games"; Cox, "The 50 Worst Games of All Time", Glixel, May 31, 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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