Actually I haven't said, at any point, that I hated the game, or even disliked it! That is not what I said.
In fact, I enjoyed the balls off it when I first played it through. Solid gunplay, excellent enemy AI, completely satisfying weapon selection, Actual Genuine Decent Use Of Slow-Motion, pretty as all get-out on a machine that can handle it. But I was not frightened! I was shocked a few times by shadowy monskers popping up and going "BOOGABOOGABOOGA" in my face, but I do not mistake "surprise" for "fear." I say it's samey because it is; you fight the same five enemies in the same three environments over and over again, with the odd segue into Shadowy Hallucination Realm, where you fight the same one enemy in the same one environment over and over again, except with a Gaussian blur applied to everything. And when I played it on a slightly-less-good PC and had to turn a lot of the graphical settings down, I had significantly less fun, unlike, say, Half-Life, which just looks nicer on better rigs and doesn't need to use envronmental effects and reflection mapping to distract you from cookie-cutter level design. IT IS NOT A BAD GAME AND I DO NOT HATE IT. It's just not a great game, and one I found roughly as frightening as Serious Sam.
(I call it Bullshit Acronym Squad because c'mon, First Encounter Assault Recon? Seriously? Who exactly are you people trying to kid here?)