Bad Day L.A.

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American McGee presents: Bad Day L.A.
Bad Day LA cover.jpg
Developer(s) Enlight Software
Publisher(s) The Mauretania Import Export Company
Designer(s) American McGee
Platforms Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)
      Genre(s) Action-adventure, Third person shooter
      Mode(s) Single-player

      American McGee presents: Bad Day L.A. (Chinese: 洛城大灾难) is a 2006 third-person action video game by American McGee. Players assume the role of Anthony Willams, a former Hollywood agent turned homeless man in Los Angeles. During this time LA is ravaged by both natural and man-made disasters. Anthony only wishes to save himself, though through the course of the story he becomes an unwilling savior. The game's attempted tone is one of political satire, targeting all spectra of politics.

      The game was featured in the film Half Nelson months before its release. Both deal with themes of urban decay.

      Characters

      Reception

      Reception
      Aggregate score
      Aggregator Score
      Metacritic 28/100[1]
      Review scores
      Publication Score
      1UP.com F[2]
      Edge 4/10[3]
      Game Revolution D[4]
      GameSpot 3/10[6]
      GameSpy 1.5/5 stars[7]
      GamesRadar 1/5 stars[5]
      IGN 2.7/10[8]
      PC Gamer (UK) 43%[9]
      PC Gamer (US) 20%[10]
      X-Play 1/5 stars[11]

      The game received "unfavorable" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[1]

      GameSpot gave it a 3 out of 10, and called it "an abject failure" and a "spectacular failure in almost every facet of its execution".[6] IGN gave it a 2.7, saying that "it's terrible".[8] G4's X-Play gave it their lowest rating, a 1 out of 5,[11] and also gave it a "Golden Mullet Award" for the year of 2006. PC Gamer gave it a 20%, saying it was "so tasteless that I wanted to scrub myself with Lysol after getting up from the computer" and "being a bad Postal clone".[10] GameSpy "awarded" the title the "Coaster of the Year" award for 2006.[12] GamesRadar awarded it the "collateral damage" award for the Anti-Game Of The Year claiming that it seemed to be "designed to end up on this list. If so... congratulations, guys, you did it!" But the game lost the award to Sonic The Hedgehog as that was apparently "the most disappointing" rather than "the absolute worst game of the year."[13] Ben Croshaw of Zero Punctuation briefly described it as "fondly remembered alongside botched prostate surgery." [14] GamesRadar ranked it as the 25th worst game ever made.[15]

      References

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      15. ↑ Worst games

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