Very strange if two sites decided to pick reviewers who specifically hate this genre to review the game, especially when you consider just how popular other games like Gears and Uncharted are now, surely they would have had a handful of guys who would have been happy to take up the job of reviewing it.
Also it could just be a case of people who do moderately like the genre... but as Aerys says above if it's a genuinely boring version of said genre then it's not going to do anything to win people over who are on the fence about it, which would then fairly warrant a lower score, I mean, I'm not really a fan of the FPS genre, but the first Halo trilogy are some of the best games I've played, just because they are so great I happily ignored my dislike of the genre because the games themselves were masterpieces.
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