Can American McGee contend for the heavyweight satire champion?
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 at Bad Day LA’s demo began with a bang – a jumbo jet filled with a cache of bioterrorist weapons crashes into the Santa Monica freeway during rush hour. If that wasn’t bad enough, green goo leaked out from the wreckage zombified passersby, causing a wave of chaos and violence to cascade over the city. Bad Day stars the most unlikely of anti-heroes – a former movie producer named Anthony Williams who decided to chuck it all and live the carefree life of a homeless bum. Despite being a big-time Holl
