Graphic reference

First, yes, it looks absolutely stunning, one has seen before on pictures and videos a lot, but it looks good so I did not think I was totally overwhelmed. And it's not even so hardware hungry.
I play at the highest settings except for MSAA to 4 instead of 6 with i7 2600K, GTX580, 8GB Ram and Win7 64 bit.
The soundtrack I find very good.

On the negative side, that are too far apart as its predecessor already checkpoints partly.
Also, that if you're not an enemy in stealth mode much too fast to see.

What I've played I really liked, as always a solid, coherent game mechanics and a
Supersetting, the overgrown and destroyed NY looks great, like "world without people".

strong buy recommendation