Great combat, varied level design; but the scares are too in-your-face, not like the first F.E.A.R... They get very predictable too, sometimes almost recycled, and rely more on creatures and Alma jumping at you, rather than just the psychological aspect.
The mutated people who crawl up walls and attack you from behind are pretty scary at first, but any fear you had of them quickly dies away once you realize going into slowmo and firing a single shotgun blast is enough to kill one.
Slowmo is hardly ever needed otherwise because the game is frankly quite easy.
The story wasn't as good this time around, its not taken to many new levels, and the ending is incredibly weird (and sudden). None of the characters are interesting at all, (including you) and are always very disposable in the overall plot, yet the game seems to think its going to disturb us somehow when they die.
I thought the combat sequences we're all good fun, but the game overall doesn't compare to the first F.E.A.R. and i've basically lost all interest in the story now... I want to see a No One Lives Forever 3 from Monolith next rather than a F.E.A.R 3 =P