As others have stated in other forums online, my PS3 has been freezing in one of two situations while playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2:
1) When a map is loading (once a lobby starts to launch into a game). This occurs when the progress line at the bottom is almost completely finished.
2) While in a lobby of people and the countdown to the game is ticking down. It doesn't seem to matter what number it is during the countdown, as long as the countdown is going. I've noticed the countdown does happen more often when there are 4 or 5 seconds left before the map launches.
These are total console freezes, necessitating a hard restart of the system. This cannot be good for the console. Every time, the system must rebuild the file system. Eventually this is going to cause a failure of the system.
I don't know if this catastrophic problem is being addressed. I would like Activision and Treyarch to inform consumers if they are going to address this particular issue, as it is widespread and appears to have damaged many people's PS3 consoles.
This is the only game that has ever frozen up the whole system like this. It seems to happen 1 out of every 20 map launches from my experience (once a game is being played), but there is about a 1 in 3 chance when it's the first map you're launching after initially loading the game the first time in a gaming session. This is very strange behavior for a game. It's happening over, and over, and over.....all the time.
First Gen PS3, 80 GB Version