The Darkness....nice...
The Good: The first great thing about the The Darkness game is the story. It is brilliant! It's co-written by Paul Jenkins who also did a run on the comic (and he also wrote other comics like The Hulk, Origin and did a excellent job on the game Twisted Metal Black). His dialog is spot on, although it can be considered mafia sterotype, I loved it from beginning to end. I hated and loved the characters and I felt like I was actually playing a movie adaptation of the comic (which Top Cow should consider). The voice acting did a great job of bringing Jenkins script to life. The characters were not to over the top and the "darkness" voice really set the mood. The music was also very good, fitting the situations well. The graphics were excellent with plenty of detail around every corner. The Darkness powers worked well and never got to boring to use.
The Bad: Although I did like walking around the New York streets and alley ways I still felt that the enviroments could have been more open. Not GTA "open" but a bit more places that you could visit and explore. Which is funny because I still got lost once and awhile, sometimes not quite sure of were my next objective was. The AI was a bit slow witted as well, sometimes they would just stand in front of you waiting to get blasted. Although I understand that staying in the dark is important to survival I did find it quite annoying having to destroy light after light to stay in the shadows. The creeper power that you possess through the course of the game was a great idea but once you start crawling on ceilings and walls things got frustrating. The Ugly: Eating hearts was strangely amusing...