It seems to be more common these days for patched/cracked games to freeze on first launch attempt. I get this a lot on the Xperia Play too. Must be how they are hacking to bypass the copy protection or online verification checks.
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Yap, but it's only at first launch, 2nd will work
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Works fine, didn't play a lot though, I'm in mission 4 now.
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