Got it for my birthday back in January - its one of the most satisfying longterm games I have played. Beautiful visual design and sound, fun and very enjoyable gameplay. I finished story mode and I'm still playing, as Xplitter says, buying houses, editing your character, visiting new regions, finding the silver keys and blowing off heads of 50 gargoyles all hidden accross the world.
Quests are really fun, combat is cool and epic, but what impressed me most is the control you have over the storyline. Make your own decisions, and, to be fair, do what you feel like doing!
The jobs in there are cool too

This IS a game to buy.
I preffered it to the 1st one, and this one does bring back a few memories of the 1st one. Epic.