one other thing i found will reduce freezes. disable your internet connection while playing. This won't help if you need to do a co-op but it will help quite a bit. I know that some people have had no issues with this game but we are now on page 34 in just this thread alone. It took me almost 60 hours to finish the game because of the many freezes and starting back a level or two. EA worldwide customer service has been very helpful in working with me. I tried all manner of things as "experiments" working with them. One of the tricks that worked on one PS3 system was to delete the game data , disable the internet, load the disc and play the unupdated version. (no co-op of course) That method actually let me play standard and new game plus error free. When i went online (mandatory update) to do the co-op the freezing started all over again. I tried several different combinations on 4 different ps3 consoles. some worked better than others but all failed eventually. as i said before - the download version (from PSN store) has worked error free. Ea has no idea why - but they did tell me that due to a major personnel change at viscerasl games (original programmers no longer employed there) that there likely will NOT be any kind of patch for the game.