But the non-player characters roaming the streets of Manhattan all looked very similar, the weapons felt underpowered and the loot seemed slightly mundane.
Just like love itself, sex settles down into something both familiar and slightly mundane, but unless you want to spend your entire life exposed to the battering of the fates it's a perfectly decent option, and familiarity can be just as fulfilling.
While the legal basis of the California lawsuits might sound slightly mundane -- that the drug companies broke the law regarding false advertising, unfair business practices and creating a public nuisance -- the damage alleged is anything but: These companies have created a nationwide "population of addicts".
Mr. Shapiro's figures and their rumpled clothes, like his slightly muted, mundane colors, evoke the 1940's or 50's - more the days of radio than of television.
But to take a slightly more mundane example from present-day Liverpool, James Milner had passed the 150 appearance mark long before he even left Newcastle seven years ago.
On a slightly more mundane level, it has been assumed at least since people started taking Gregor Mendel seriously that all inheritance of a lasting kind is conveyed by material means – notably by genes now known to be made of DNA.
Bray and Scott needn't have worried, as the director's motivation to adapt the play were entirely different, and slightly more mundane: "I went to see the play twice, and the second time I saw it I thought, 'if anyone is going to film this, I would really like to be asked'.
Then, powerful men often saw their creations as places that would embody the values of Christianity, public health and teetotalism; now, though churches are often included in new developments, such places represent slightly more mundane aspects of daily life – aspirational consumerism, home ownership and, very often, the quest for old-fashioned neighbourliness.
Like Electronic Arts, Sega is attempting to straddle two worlds the land of death matches and health pods in its popular Unreal Tournament online game and the slightly more mundane atmosphere of checkers and hearts.
What lured him back from the skies was Duchovny -- and slightly more mundane matters.
The Returned, however, is filmed on its mundane, slightly spooky fringes, where the natural world begins to intrude.
