http://www.gameslave.co.uk/content/dark-messiah-preview/
This preview is about multiplayer, and talks a bit about the way melee combat is handled. Good stuff.
Keep in mind the game is still in development, even bloodlines had sucktastic graphics in its early days. For example the "Jeanette/VV pic"
But the game seems to have beautiful graphics. Not technically, but in terms of design. And that's just the awesomeness.
It even makes me cuffawkle.
The characters' dilemmas are better and deeper, Pacino is better in The Insider than in Heat, Russel Crowe gives the best performance of his life, it doesn't have Val Kilmer in it, and it's smarter.
Edit: I think Heat is pretty good, by the way.