You play as Anthony Williams, a homeless person in Los Angeles who doesn't give a shit. One day, as he is again blocking the highway with his shopping cart, a plane full of biowaste crashes into the bridge nearby and one Bad Day in L.A. begins. Soon people begin to mutate into zombies because of the dangerous waste, meteorites come down from the sky, a tsunami makes his way to L.A. and many other bad things happen. The game is a humorous take on the USA's post-9/11 culture of fear.

Your only goal is to survive. You can do that by either shoot your way through everything and anyone, or help the people around you. You need to protect them from bad boys like terrorists, street gangs or zombies with the help of eight weapons from a tireiron to a rocket launcher. But you can also heal the zombies with your fire extinguisher or use it to help burning people. For every action you do, you either get a smiley or a frowney, and depending on how many of these you have collected, the NPCs will have different behaviour. If you behave like a psycho and collect frowneys, everyone will hunt you down and will not help you find your way through the mess.

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Alternate Titles

"Bad Day LA" -- common shorthand

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	American McGee presents Bad Day L.A.
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User Reviews

This is not a game, this is a satire as a game

Kasey Chang (3697)

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The Press Says

Gry OnLine	Aug 14, 2006	71 out of 100	71
Playback	Aug, 2006	6.33 out of 10	63
Worth Playing	Sep 20, 2006	5 out of 10	50
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Oct, 2006	41 out of 100	41
PC Powerplay	Sep, 2006	41 out of 100	41
Gamernode	Sep 22, 2006	3.2 out of 10	32
GameSpot	Sep 13, 2006	3 out of 10	30
GameSpy	Sep 13, 2006		30
IGN	Sep 18, 2006	2.7 out of 10	27
JeuxVideoPC.com	Oct 10, 2006	5 out of 20	25