Players can head from story mission to story mission or take a break
with optional side missions allowing them to further level up their ships, abilities, and technology.
While you are constantly engaged in combat, you might find yourself getting distracted by a number
of optional side missions.
The six hour single player campaign includes a critical path and quite a
few optional side missions that unlock various weapons and upgrades, but taken as a whole its pacing is wildly uneven.
We were told that in addition to the main quest, there are
many optional side missions that players can partake in by talking to various NPCs, like Crazy Joe from the demo.
In the Italian and French Invasion of Egypt campaigns the story closely follows Napoleon's early military career with
smaller optional side missions that help drive the action forward.
So apart from the main missions, the game gives the
player optional side missions to complete which could literally have you playing this game for a very long time... oh... and then you have the boss battles!
Other island activities
include optional side missions, supply drop runs (checkpoint races), Trials of the Rakyat challenges in which you must kill as many enemies as possible with a given weapon before time expires, and more peaceful pursuits such as poker games.
It turns out Ubisoft knows this too, as Desmond's main gameplay sections are not even part of the main story, and are in
fact optional side missions that are unlocked by Ezio collecting the numerous «Animus fragments» scattered around Constantinople.
One
optional side mission takes Jensen to a Bank that safeguards information, and he must navigate its multi-tiered granite floors to find proof that will deflect prying eyes.
Playing a bit like a concrete jungle Far Cry, players engage in missions as they go about Philly fighting back against KPA, while
completing optional side missions to liberate parts of the city from enemy control and discovering supplies to increase their abilities and armaments.
The six hour single player campaign includes a critical path and quite a
few optional side missions that unlock various weapons and upgrades, but taken as a whole its pacing is wildly uneven.
Go to an enemy filled area, do
the optional side missions for extra experience, try again.
There is a blacksmith to help you forge and fix weapons and armor, and several NPCs around to give
you optional side missions, and so on.
The main story missions and
the optional side missions are all given on the main base.
How does Dead Space 3 fare after the addition of cooperative play, weapon crafting, and
optional side missions?
Free flight is a good bet to get a hang of flying World War II fighter planes from Spitfire to Junkers Ju 87, all purchasable with money earned from the campaign missions and
their optional side missions.
Loyalty Missions are
optional side missions that you can do with your homies.
The open world gameplay lets you decide when you want to take on a story - based mission, one of
the optional side missions, assault and takeover an Omega Force base, or simply explore the countryside looking for the game's numerous collectible items, hunting the local mutated fauna, or ambushing Omega Force patrols.
There are three main story missions and eleven
optional side missions.
Unfortunately not as much effort was put in to
the optional side missions that has you completing the same tasks over and over again.
Go to an enemy filled area, do
the optional side missions for extra experience, try again.
The real treat is in
the optional side missions which explore Desmond's past.
But
the optional side missions are great too, and in many instances much more interesting.
Outside of missions, the player can move freely open world game and is able to cover
the optional side missions.
There's a central narrative that runs through Mankind Divided, but the developers also have expanded
the optional side missions.
At the start of each chapter a hulking monster issues you with
an optional side mission, which, if completed, will net some more powerful loot.
Unlike Dark Souls, Nioh is actually segmented out into different missions, both story related and
optional side missions.