
Finally, there are combat-focused side missions where you get into a scrap and fight your way through. Second, there are missions where you’ll find an item during a story mission (such as a recruitment or loyalty quest) and must return it to the correct NPC.

First, there are missions that involve talking - to resolve a situation, to buy an item, etcetera. In ME2, assignments are generally a lot more simple and fall into two basic categories. Mass Effect 2 is a far more streamlined game than its predecessor, but it still has aspirations of being a traditional, full-fat RPG - and that means there’s a bunch of side quests and optional missions which take the form of Assignments, just as they did in the previous game.
