8.0 if you bought it like me, at $3.
repetitive but fun . interesting story but quick play through.
on PC you don't get achievements so it kinds of bores me to go find all the flags an all the Templars (some are hidden very well you really have to explore the towns and the areas in between (sorts of canyons/corridors you take to get to a city the first time).

backtracking much?
once you've done all cities once, you get baaaack to them two other times each, so no worries, there is still stuff to look at even if there is only 3 cities. and they kinda look like each other. aside from acre. it is about the 'photo'...you know, the main colour of the picture...don't think the whole game is sand color because it is jerusalem and stuff.
it IS sandy (think soft yellow) but the settings change enough that you don't really get annoyed by the same reoccurring setting. each town IS different though. it is a strange feeling but during my play i could see a screenshot and tell everytime witch city it was without actually knowing the part itself...
acre s a nice change of pace. the city is actually metal grey and is different from the others: french people are among the living.

what was that griberishh?
THE thing that made me come back again is how they put things together in that game. even if it is clearly not half of what ppl hoped for, it does have polish and a nice point not everyone (no one i can think of) pointed out is the dub.
people in the game talk with a HEAVY Arab accent. the same as people in ac2 speaking with a HEAVY italian accent.

I
LIKE
why? you really seem to be out there immersed in the world wasting you life in the real world. this is one of the best touch i ever saw in a videogame and i have been playing since the gameboy. everything they say seems ti s from the neighbouring Arabian district/corner/bloc that is immersion. remember how people said that nazis shouldn't speak perfect German in games? they got it t righ here. and even more!!!!
SPOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILEEEEEERRRRRRRS
towards the end the machine begin to make less and less efforts in talks on the street and what not, not even translating any more so most of the towns people talk arab between themselves. how fantastic is that???)
SPOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRS

poor secondary chars .
don't loose your mind at the mention of kristen bell. she is so badly rendered that if you don't know it is her....
i knew ubisoft to do good things but that level of laziness...... it is as if naughtydogs made tomb raider 3. it isn't that horrible, alright but really unsettling. towards the end i was glad to finish with that game but kind of sad too, leaping from anywhare is fantastic enough (and i don't tell you about the thrill of the story however minimal it is. you have to find/live through missions to...well im already saying too much. lets just say you quite don't know what they are putting you into)
i won't review all chars but most of them if not all are 1 dimensional chars . no elena fisher here, just plain old target and such.
the twist is you work against christians and for what would be called a terrorist force nowadays ....^^
anyhow.

dreamy gameplay
you won't drop to your doom or miss a step or something here. the gameplay is the strength of the game that one can see even now with uncharted(enslaved is really lame -demo- at that ). you are half guided half master of your movements. it is really sensational to be able to race and jump any and everywhere or close. the thing now is at first you might jump to your death. you have to get used to your movements and how to make the char do what you want.

when you paid 3bucks for a new game you like it better than i you pad 20 or 15 that may be why i'm not bitter about that game. i do look out for enslave but i'll have to wait more than what i waited for ac1 to drop in price (one year or so)
poor side story or not enough of them. well, play ac2 for a much better much complete experience.it does feel like a fine **** left hanging....that is to bad, you think they would be correcting it in the 2nd game but i've been playing it and so far... it is still a bit stiff... in anycase play it from a used copy if you are like me: picky.
strange that occidental devs understand tenchu way better than japanese ones...hmm, kojima?

the only thing missing from the game: a female char. ac 3?