Finding a balance can be tricky, but awesome. You could assign three squad members to each do one and take only a minute total, but you'll have a hard time defending them on your own. You could assign one squad member to do them one at a time, but you'll face more enemies. You do this by hacking three separate consoles for a full minute each, while enemies are constantly pouring in. The one I found the craziest was when I had to activate a battleship's automatic defence systems. The intense bits come when you need to spend a very long time working on a stationary objective while enemies pour in, or when that objective is on top of an enemy spawn point, or when you have a time constraint. These actions require you or a squad member to spend a cumulative total of 10 seconds (sometimes 20 or more) working - so you could hack the console for 5 seconds and turn it over to a squadmate for the other 5, for example. Many of them revolve around slicing into computers or setting charges. But later on, holy crap are there some intense moments.

The action starts out a little sparse, but it does give you time to learn the squad commands and to adapt to the terrible crosshair (see below).

Star wars republic commando gameplay