Pfft.
In The Specialist (HL1 mod) you could slow down things in MP. For the person who initiated the slowdown their accuracy would improve as time went slower, for everyone else their accuracy declined. It was a pretty good system.
PC Gamer (the US one) gave F.E.A.R. a 92% and said that it's reall fucking good, but the whole "scary" aspect of the game really wasn't that scary, seeing how much it copys from Ringu...
I played the multiplayer beta a while back, twas poop, the only good thing i found was that if you lowered the resolution to 640x480, put everything on low and enabled the double pixels thingy it looked like doom