The characters are tangy and the 1970s suburban setting provides an enjoyable ambience — lots of naff aspirational furnishings and soft-rock tunes — but there's a shortage of tension.

The dingy buildings and food stalls in a fake suburban setting provide cover for crazed criminals to jump out at you, sending screaming crowds fleeing down the road.

Some of the last frontiers that we can think about restoring are these urban, suburban settings.

Whatever his eye fixed upon in his daily life re-emerged, exaggerated and aggrandised, in works that began to appear in metropolitan and suburban settings around the world.

Using transmitters, scientists found that populations increased faster in the suburban settings than in old growth forest.