Bad Day LA demo

By Tom Bramwell Published 16 August, 2006

Trying American.

American McGee's Bad Day LA is now available in demo form, featuring a small section where Santa Monica is struck down by some biological terror. Apparently all that fits into just 260MB of demo, too.

The full game is due out on PC and Xbox later this year, and sees Los Angeles struck by a series of disasters - not just natural, as we remarked yesterday, but also some set upon the residents of LA by The Terrorists. Perhaps they brought books to the beach.

A collaboration between McGee - best known for his work with id Software and subsequently American McGee's Alice - and Enlight, Bad Day LA is a game you can find out lots more about by exploring our archive of movies and screenshots. And of course by playing the demo.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • El_MUERkO #1 6 years ago

    Downloading, the videos of this look great :)

  • Zerimski #2 6 years ago

    Downloaded it earlier. Won't be able to play it till I get home from work though :/

  • smelly #3 6 years ago

    Gonna give this a go. Apparently edge gave this a low score. But I dont trust edge's score system, and refuse to buy the magazine to see in words why they didnt like it.

  • smelly #4 6 years ago

    Okay.. anyone got a like for demo where i DONT have to wait 25 minutes to download it? (or pay a monthly fee?!?)

  • Shiner #5 6 years ago

    Try here:

    http://ww w.gamershell.com/download_15006...

  • smelly #6 6 years ago

    fankingyou

  • Kronos #7 6 years ago

    very dull demo.. run here do this..listen to lame joke in whiney american voice..run here..repeat

  • smelly #8 6 years ago

    well it's just finished downloading here, in time for my lunch hour! YAY!

  • smelly #9 6 years ago

    Totally agree.. That was shit!

    Nice idea, VERY poorly executed.

    Shame they didnt keep the look of the movie in game (probs down to lack of graphical oomph). The missions were tired and repetitive, I had people starting to hate me for no reason..

    Getting thru the levels was god awful, some vehicles/etc you can jump over, others have an invisible wall. And as for going the "wrong way" to be told that you cant go that way *GAH!* It was like being in a 10 year old game!

    Demo didnt do itself any favours by being the first level with the tutorial in it, i'd have prefered to be launched in at the deep end.

    Not good. Video made it look ooh so much better.

  • andyk #10 6 years ago

    "Shame they didnt keep the look of the movie in game (probs down to lack of graphical oomph)"

    McGee can hear a little song in his head - 24 little hours..... perhaps the 360's and PS3's upgrades may have come in useful....

  • monkey_man #11 6 years ago

    Argh, what a let-down. Was really looking forward to this, but it plays like dog-doo and looks worse. What's with the lack of graphics options? The art had such a unique style, it's a mystery why they'd restrict it to turning shadows on/off. It ran on 1024x768 automatically - I couldn't change it - yet my native resolution is 1280x1024!

    : ' {
    Edited by 1 at 16/08/06 @ 15:01

  • smelly #12 6 years ago

    "perhaps the 360's and PS3's upgrades may have come in useful...."


    Me thinks it's been writen for the lowest powered pc (or ps2) in mind.

    Im sure the extra power the wii has wouldve been enough to do it :-)


    (wouldnt have stopped the demo being shit though)

    Edited by 1 at 16/08/06 @ 16:00

  • Icebox #13 6 years ago

    It's terrible. First impressions were okay (despite no options to change resolution etc), as I thought you might be able to wander off anywhere, within reason, but it's incredibly linear and incredibly boring. Just constantly following instructions, picking up items having x/10 zombies to kill, people to save etc. Shame, as I was looking forward to it.

  • urban #14 6 years ago

    i love how you guys read the forums and make news items out of our finds :D hehe

  • Sko #15 6 years ago

    Yeah, the forums make the sun rise too... *sigh*

  • kangarootoo #16 6 years ago

    @urban

    Not everyone reads the forums.

  • BBIAJ #17 6 years ago

    Ha ha! Funniest game I've played in a long time, since the last one in fact (Psychonauts). An even more of a definite purchase for me now, cheers Eurogamer!

  • smelly #18 6 years ago

    Were we playing the same game?

  • Natas #19 6 years ago

    Yea... I was disapointed too; bloody bunch of assholes attacking me randomly, if you kill them it just gets worse. Maybe full game will be better? /hope