I'm loving the game, but that effect is extremely obscuring!! It first happened in th 1st level on th turret when the ambush happened, th amount of shots that hit me made the screen go red and I couldnt see, it wasnt enjoyable or anything it felt stupid, just waiting to die. 
I just kept my finger on th trigger and sprayed everywhere because their was no other option! 
I would honestly think the game was a completely flawless masterpiece of th genre if they hadnt put this in.

I liked COD4's better, but it isn't that bad.

that sounds like the point of it, to obscure your vision a bit and show how close to death you are.

I didn't like it in either game, but I'm fairly used to it now. It does get in the way a bit though. =/

" @DOUBLESHOCK: But the thing is, it'll cause your death when you would have otherwise lived. "

VERY minor issue. You get used to it real quick, I wasn't a fan of the "long shot!" at first, but it doesn't bother me. I like it better than the stupid red ring in COD4 and WaW.

Yeah, I'd say it's a little over kill... usually these things make it harder for you to see, but this one is just to much, you can't see at all. :/

looks like in every battle you have a jar full of jam over your eyes that everyone keeps shooting

I have yet to figure out how Infinity Ward thought the blood on the screen looked good. It looks like chunky Powerade

" I have yet to figure out how Infinity Ward thought the blood on the screen looked good. It looks like chunky Powerade "

i think killzone 2 did it right

 The blood effect is the only part of the game I can say just kinda sucks, it doesn't look like blood and it makes it so fucking hard to see shit and it feels like your playing 50% of the game with strawberry rubbed on your screen cause I mean you get shot...ALOT.
 
They should redo it to make it look nicer (I honestly think the current graphic just looks awful unlike the rest of the game which looks shockingly good) and be less obtrusive so I can actually see what I am doing.

It was a little distracting. But not terrible.

Dude it looks like strawberry jam.

I always feel like a cherry slurpee is being thrown at me but it doesn't bother me at all. I'm not thinking "ahh man, that looks stupid," im thinking "f@@king hell, where the hell is that coming from?!"

Gives me an idea for next years haloween costume. I'll stumble around with Swim goggles filled with red jello. People ask, who are you? I'll just say, I'm hit, get to cover.

Reminds me of Hawaiian punch every time it gets on the screen.  Wish they could have darkened it a bit.

It looks like someone splashed strawberry jam all over my visor.

I'm okay with it obscuring the vision, I mean, I'm sure that after a guy is shot he isn't in the most rational state of mind, probably makes him screw up a bit. Probably a bit distracting, getting shot.
I do have a problem with the fact that it looks like strawberry jam. It looks like you got blood on a camera lens.

I hate the blood screen, it ruins the game for me. You can't see anything at all and I can't belive they made that decision to distract and annoy you since you can't really see your reticles in an ambush.

I haven't played the game yet but it doesn't obscure my vision when I watched some gameplay videos. The effect to me is the issue, it looks like your guy bleeds Strawberry Jam.

My opinion is that the blood screen is a good edition. It tells you you're about to die and gives you a small penalty for getting shot up before you regen. Plus, all told it is not THAT distracting. 
 
My big issue with it is that it looks like water dyed with food coloring just splattered the camera, totally breaks the moment: "What the hell! Someone just threw Jello at me!"

" On what difficulty level are you guys playing it, those of you, who complain about "too much" blood screen?   I wonder if it is/was the game devs intention to slow you down from the run&gun arcade gameplay style to a more tactical - slower paced - style, so they can force you to watch their scripted events. On the other hand, I myself always have problems with FPS because I am way too cautious, trying to play it like a real life situation. Military training. One shot = kill/death. And that of course is not the way to play these games. "

I'd like to see some of you people get shot in the chest a few times and then try to accurately fire a weapon.
 
...Just saying...

Let me put it this way: 
If you just got shot in the face, could you see all that straight? 
 
 
No. No you couldn't.

It just looks plain bad, and so far in the game the worst thing about it.

I hate it too. It has a tinge of orange too....which is not blood. Also, the fact is that blood will never spurt onto a person's face like that:  you are supposed to be a face, not a camera. Blood spurting around you would be a neater addition as well as a more accurate one. The fact that the screen gets so red that everything is obscured is not good either.

yeah its fucking ANNOYING

"...and this is the first time I've heard any complaints about it. "

i enjoy the blood on the screen. i like it more then 4 and waw where the screen just turned red.

Is the character you're controlling wearing a face mask or something? Otherwise blood splatter on the screen doesn't make much sense if they truly are going for realism.

" Let me put it this way: If you just got shot in the face, could you see all that straight?   No. No you couldn't. "

The way the blood splatters on looks nothing like what you would see if you got blood in your eyes. It looks more like you bled all over a pane of glass inches from your face. This is just more proof that in Call of Duty games, you don't control an actual character, just a camera with a gun stuck to it.

What's more obscuring is the out of focus dirt that blasts onto your "eyes". That would hurt, but your guy doesn't even try to rub it off.

No one is really supposed to like that.

Yeah, the strawberry jam on the screen is definitely a bit of a fuck-up. I don't even really notice it anymore though.