Giving a review of any model or line of guitars is difficult. No matter how much guitar manufacturers would like to find a way to do it, there just isn't any way to make all guitars of any type exactly alike. Wood is not a homogenous material, and there are just too many variables in the way wood acts and ages. I've always contended that if you go to any guitar factory and play the next 12 of any model that come out, you'll play 12 guitars that feel and play differently from one another. So this page is going to be a little difficult to write- I'll have to give basic impressions of a model or manufacturer as a whole, and then give specific examples of individual guitars. 
For instance, to the right is a photograph of two reissue Fender stratocasters, the one on the left a reissue of a 1957, the one on the right a reissue 1962. The '57 reissue was made in 1986, and is generically similar to actual 1957 strats which I have played. Later reissue '57s all the way up to at least 1998 are quite different; they have a neck shape which is not historically accurate, and for some time in the '90s were made with very inferior methods of construction both in terms of wood and body routing. This '57 reissue was historically accurate. The only problem really was that the pickups weren't very good; not bad, but just not very good. I replaced them with Fender Custom Shop "Fat '50s".
The guitar on the right is a reissue 1962 strat, made in 1982 (the first year of the reissue models). It is an historically accurate reproduction, and is in fact one of the best guitars I've ever played. I bought it because it is exactly like a '64 I used to have, in feel and in sound (unplugged and through an amp). I've actually never played any two strats so similar as this one and that '64, so it's a little uncanny. Again, the majority of late '80s and '90s reissue '62 models are not accurate in terms of the neck dimensions, and the pickups for the most part aren't so great. My understanding is that since mid-'98 the '57 and '62 reissues have been made to historically accurate specifications, but I haven't played any newer ones so I really can't say. The necks don't look right on the '57s, though, they don't seem as sharp and hard as the "V" neck on the real '57 and '58 strats. Of the reissues I have played, my opinion is that the '82 through '84 models are quite good and very accurate, and although some of the later ones are good guitars they're not much like the originals. You may prefer them, of course, as the neck radius is larger, and many if not most players are more comfortable with the 9.5 inch radius than the 7.25 inch vintage neck radius. The '90s reissues (until recently, as noted above) were made with a neck shape that was sort of a compromise between the "hard V" '57 neck shape and the "C" shape of the early '60s strats.
In general, my favorite electric guitar is the stratocaster, but there are many versions of it put out now by Fender, and of course many copies and variations on the theme by many companies. The Standard and American Standard lines, frankly, I was never that fond of. Some individual guitars are very nice instruments, but in general I felt they were inferior to those strats (most of them, anyway) made up to the early 1970s. The poplar bodies with ash or alder veneer, and the "swimming pool" rout just sort of insult the concept of the stratocaster, to my way of thinking. Of course, Fender doesn't have to build guitars according to my way of thinking, and who am I to tell them what to do, anyway? Still...
On the other hand, many of the variations are quite nice instruments, and the Custom Shop "Relic" models are excellent- the thin finish and raw areas let the guitars breathe, they're just very resonent and toneful instruments. The Fender Custom Shop instruments are in general very nice, and at the prices a bargain compared to most expensive guitars, in my (humble?) opinion especially compared to the Gibson "Historic" and Custom Shop models, some of which are very nice but many of which are only marginally better than the often inferior factory models made by Gibson today, and very expensive. I have liked Gibson guitars very much over the years, but the company's products in general have not recovered as well from the "bad old days" of the lower grade 1970s guitars as Fender has done. I personally feel the semi-hollow bodies (like the ES-335, ES-175, etc.) and the big full-sized hollow-body jazz guitars have always retained a better overall quality than Gibson's solidbody electrics. And, like all manufacturers, if you look hard enough among the 1970s guitars you'll find some that have aged into very nice instruments.
One of the companies to make excellent variations on the strat theme has been Jackson, and although I didn't think that much of the Fusion XE model I felt the Fusion XL was an excellent guitar. I have a friend who owns one I have used a great deal, and have recorded with several times. The neck is flatter across the fretboard than a strat, and is a very smooth and fast neck; it almost makes you go faster than you can really control, it's a very "shred" type of guitar, but quite adequate for other styles of playing also. The body has the basic strat contours, plus a neck heel that is easier to play around, 24 frets, a Floyd Rose-licensed tremelo and very nice rail magnet pickups, probably designed by Seymour Duncan, two "single-coils" and a humbucker in the bridge. They are quite hot when called upon, but can be played cool or bluesy also. It is a very versatile guitar, much more so than any other of the super-fast neck/hot pickup "shred" strat-copies I've seen. In fact, when new it ran around $1,600 US, and was a bargain compared to an American Standard strat which sold for much less.
I hate this picture, the saggy bright red shirt makes me look fat as a pig. Still, it's a nice photo of the guitar, a 1970 Les Paul Custom.
Over the years the Les Paul has usually been my second favorite electric guitar, and although I find the Gibson SG to be more comfortable, and am finding that the Fender Telecaster is a far more versatile instrument than I thought when I was young, I suppose the LP is still my next favorite to the strat.
Although the Les Paul Standard, with the rosewood fretboard and maple cap over the mahogany body is the most famous, I actually prefer the Custom. I think the bright attack of the ebony fretboard compliments the mahogany body and neck tone better, and makes the guitar sound cleaner and more detailed. I find the neck pickup great for cool, mid-rangey jazz stuff, and the bridge pickup good for both leads and heavy rhythm playing. I especially like the bridge pickup for leads with a Marshall amp head and cabinet, especially with a little slap-back echo and some kind of smooth distortion sound. For the neck pickup, I like it played clean into something cleaner, like a blackface Fender Deluxe Reveb, or a Twin.