There are many different ways to complete a mission and it all relates to how you and your crew decide to play the game. The amount of depth in each contract is fantastic, though not obvious at first. It can be risky to set the difficulty too high considering you get nothing if you fail, but the higher the risk the higher the reward. Each job can be altered in difficulty for bigger rewards, but this means tougher enemies, enemies like Taser Cops who can incapacitate you easily and the Bulldozer, a special police unit with extremely heavy armor. One mission had us searching for a certain fusion engine in a basement full of similar engines, but picking the correct one requires you to know what you’re doing or the job will take a lot longer than it should. Some missions require you to have previous knowledge of how to complete certain tasks. The jobs themselves range from your classic bank robbery and jewel heists to more elaborate jobs like cooking meth, trading it to street gangs for information, and using that information to defuse a bus full of C4 explosives and steal the cash inside. HINT: Don’t spend money and XP on pointless things.
The skills you choose to build define how you will play the game.