besides the deck of 52 and the missions for that?

Blow stuff up.
Blow it up again.
Blow the crap out of it.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat if necessary.

Find the hidden items, destroy the statues and visit the dollar signs.

There are also about 8-10 missions for each faction.

South Korean
Allied Nations
China
Russian Mafia

There are also bonus objectives for many missions.

The Ace contracts also send you to new maps, each one is a seperate little island.

There are little bases and bunkers all over the place to engage troops if you want a fight.

There are challenge markers a few in each area. I guess about 10 in each area. The two main areas are Northern and Southern Province.

Plus the game has some interesting features, if you play a mission that alters the map, like a mission that puts up barricades and a press conference stand along with a table with weapons on it... when you finish the mission... even if you go all over the map as long as you don't reload the game all that stuff stays. It's like that for all missions.

Also any stuff you blow up like bunkers or SAM sites stay blown up until you reload the game. So you can blow it up over and over to earn more money but if you want to blow it up to help makes things easier you can do that too.

Many missions like 90% of them are NOT timed so you can literally take as long as you want planning and scouting. Getting different vehicles and whatever you want before reaching your goal.

It's a pretty addictive game, my game lasted 57 hours before I finished it, and it runs really smooth. I have a progressive scan TV though but I am playing something else now that's not progressive scan and for awhile it was a little jumpy to me. You could finish the game pretty quick if you wanted, but it would probably still take 10-15 hours. If you don't want to search for National Treasures, WMD/Blueprints, Listening Stations, and Monuments... or do any of the challenges and such.

And you can blow up any building, bridge, everything except tunnels (there are two in northern province, not really big) I have not been able to get a tunnel but that's ok.

quote Hobbkito

There are also about 8-10 missions for each faction.

more like 2-4 but it is still quite fun blowing the living crap out of everything, i love bunker (not bumker ) buster bombs
plus its as open as GTA and, in my opinion, a better game, when you unlock the H3 and Sportscar you will have a load of fun just driving, in both provences, and if you save beforehand, running everyone over and blowing everything up then load your last save and then "blow it up again!"

This message was edited by Legoss3 on Feb 03 2005.

quote Legoss3

quote Hobbkito

There are also about 8-10 missions for each faction.

more like 2-4 but it is still quite fun blowing the living crap out of everything, i love bumker buster bombs
plus its as open as GTA and, in my opinion, a better game, when you unlock the H3 and Sportscar you will have a load of fun just driving, in both provences, and if you save beforehand, running everyone over and blowing everything up then load your last save and then "blow it up again!"

8-10 Total, for the whole game. Maybe 12 for some, if you include face card missions.

Per suit yeah 1-3 missions. AN I think only had 1 Spade mission (besides the Ace).

You can enjoy thinking up inventive ways of killing people and destroying stuff. I like stealing NK helicopters in flight as they come close to the ground then picking up NK Sungris and chucking them in the river.