almost to a game the sandbox nature just means you're filling time doing the same missions over and over.
Variety is the spice of life.
agreed wibble yet there were some exceptions. Psi-ops (xbox, ps2) was a sandbox game that encouraged experimentation as demonstrated here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMbhHrW1-28
and non-sandbox games don't have you doing the same thing again and again? (FPS-shoot duck run shoot duck run, RPG- fight loot fight loot, Platformers- jump jump double jump) and there's peggle
agreed wibble yet there were some exceptions. Psi-ops (xbox, ps2) was a sandbox game that encouraged experimentation as demonstrated here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMbhHrW1-28
and non-sandbox games don't have you doing the same thing again and again? (FPS-shoot duck run shoot duck run, RPG- fight loot fight loot, Platformers- jump jump double jump) and there's peggle