Kotaku
I sat in on a developer demonstration of The Darkness a little while ago.
The concept behind the game is that you're a mafia hitman who can suck power from the darkness, so you spend a lot of time in the game shooting out lights. Once in the dark you can summon up these horrible little darklings that whack people to death with oversized powertools. You can also use your darkness powers to slide through small openings and use streams of darkness to carry or throw things. The whole thing is based on the comic book of the same name and one of the book's writers helped with the storyline.
The concept behind the game has a lot of potential, but the game's AI seemed very weak. In one scene, cops bust into a building to arrest you. After siccing darklings on a couple of cops, the developer walked out to a cop who was standing with his gun raised and pointed through the door. He walked right up to the side of the guy and just started wailing on him. The cop just stood there, looking into the door way.
Later one, the developer found a cop cringing behind a trash can. The guy just squatted there cringing as he fired into him. This sort of AI drives me nuts. The game has been in development for one and a half years and isn't due out until 2007, so I hope they can work on it.
