Brilliant!, fantastic visuals, cool storyline and great gameplay.
Most reviews run through the story a little but I don't like to do that, I feel that if someone reads a review (I know I do) they want to know more if they should spend their hard earned money on a game if it's going to be poor and if not would enjoy working through the story themselves. So - I'm going to run through the game itself and perform a textual analysis on it, talking about visuals, sounds to game play.
Firstly, the graphics on this game are outstanding, they in my opinion are unbeaten by any other game on the PS3 - some have come close such as Uncharted but never stepped up an over. Everything seems to blend so well and I often got confused with what was game play and what wasn't until I realised the whole damn thing is game play (like most next-gen games).
The sound is great too, the cities give a feeling of being alive. Beggar's pester you for money, preachers preach and random people just have conversations and it all adds the the authentic feel this game has.
The game play again is excellent. Everything seems to fall into place for example when running across buildings and up walls, there a seem less transition between the different animations which just makes it work. The only downer on the game play is the fact that it can become very repetitive and boring and there's not much skill involved in jumping across buildings - you quite simply just hold the button down and run. Another criticism I have for the game play is the actual assassinations. It is better if you do all perform all research tasks so you can perform the discrete murder but it's not necessary so you often find yourself just slaying every guard in sight with a sequence of reversals.
Overall this game is a must have and one of my favourites. My reasons for not giving it a ten are the criticisms mentioned about the game play as everything else it perfect.