Other quibbles include an unnecessary 'upgrade' system that forces the player to buy expensive new equipment before being able to perform another mission with or without the rank required also hurt the experience. In the meantime you'll be clicking dozens of password fields and altering information ad nauseam. Unfortunately, it takes an excessive time commitment to reach these scenarios.
These are the only worthwhile reasons to play the game, with your requiring advanced tools such as voice recorders, decoders and IP apps. You'll be tediously working through mission after identical mission to earn the right to partake in large-scale scenarios with a goal that takes some skill and thought to reach.
The huge problem is, however, is that tasks like these encompass almost the entire game, and there is a very thin list of tasks to accomplish.
Hacking and editing databases can be fun for a while going through lists of information and creating queries to find a specific entry and altering it somehow while you have the threat of being traced is modestly fun.
