» Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:42 pm
There's campaign mode where you play the missions from one factions standpoint, in order one after the other, and needing to succeed on a mission in order to proceed to the next.
There's freeplay where you can pick a mission out of sequence. Probably not random on Console, certainly not random on PC as you can use a server browser to select the server you want running the map with the options you want (FF on or off, enemy highlighting on or off, matchmaking on or off, etc.)
There's stopwatch (aka competition mode) where two teams play the same map, first as attacker and then again as defender, attempting to beat the other teams time to determine the winner.
The thing they all have in common is they all use the same "objective mode" which everyone else has described already. In other words, they are all pretty much the same type of game play.