Do you have what it takes to be apart of the Creed.
Assassin's Creed's graphics are, quiet frankly, amazing. The detail in the main characters is matched only by Gears of War. The cloth animation is beautiful, the climbing up buildings is unmatched (granted there's only been 2-3 other then AC that's had climbing in it), the combat is unrivaled. In AC when you climb up buildings you actually see the character's hands gripping the railings, stones, windows in order to pull himself up. Though the details seems to drag down just a tad when you start going outside of the main characters. Besides Altair (the Assassin), his Teacher and all of your marks (assassination targets) the characters' detail seem to drag. Granted the only people left after the main characters are the civilians and guards and to the fact that there's thousands of these civilians in any given city its easy to dismiss and understandable. Now remember i said that the details drag a bit...not a whole lot.
The sound and lip-syncing in the game is actually very good. When you're out in the cities the sound is amazing you'll hear the crowd noise you'll hear individuals speaking to each other, merchants trying to sell their goods, guards picking on the innocent. The cities immerse you in a world that you are welcome to enter as Altair. Though the lip-syncing in the cutscenes needed a little bit of work because you will start to see some words don't quiet match up with the lips moving but a lot of the times you won't be looking at the lips so its easy to ignore.
The gameplay in Assassin's Creed is actually a lot easier then you would imagine. With all the building climbing, guard killing, assassination attacks and knife throwing a lot of people were skeptical on how the controls would be. Well, the controls are quiet easy. The game starts out stripping Altair of his Assassin Rank (he's essentially an ultimate assassin). Therefore giving you different abilities after each rank so it allows you to get to know certain moves before it gives you new ones. The other nice aspect of the gameplay is that with almost all of the new abilities you are taken to the courtyard to practice them. So to answer the question people have on whether or not the controls are confusing, they are not by any means.
In all Assassin's Creed is by far one of the best game out for the 360 and it should be played by anybody. The game's combat and cinematic efforts are unmatched by any other game out there. This game deffinatly will be in the top 3 of anybody's rankings.