Picked this up last night and spent a good 5 hours on it.
Ive been following the build of this from start to finish and i must say it certainly does live up to the expectations so far. I loved assassins creed 1 but i was like everyone else put off by the reptitive missions. Pick pocket, interrogate, eavesdrop & finally assassinate repeat, repeat, repeat.
Graphically its better, the story is really drawing me in, the gameplay is awesome as always & finally the missions/side missions are really broad. This game will take a while to complete.
I got board of forza 3 pretty quick, i finished codmw2 in about 4 hours and it will probably collect dust now but i can see this one taking away a big chunk of my free time.
I recommend this to anyone who enjoyed the gameplay of the first.
It gets my vote for GOTY