My game is freezing before I can even enter the multiplayer menu. I have not even been able to get into the multiplayer menu for 3 days. Prior to the past 3 days, I was able to occasionally play a match or two of multiplayer, but it would inevitably freeze, either while loading into a match, or after one. I'm not sure what changed in the past 3 days to make it so that I can not play the game in at all.
I originally had multiplayer set to be default, and when I'd put the game in the system, or selected the disc icon from the menu, it would freeze. Specifically, when it was default, the Treyarch/COD logo would appear in the bottom right corner, the game would load for a few seconds, then go to a completely black screen and then nothing would happen at all.
I tried deleting the system data and re-installing it. This changed nothing. I tried repairing my PS3 file system from the safe mode start up. This changed nothing. I deleted my game save file. This got me back to the point where I'd see the initial opening montage, go through system set up, etc. But when I got to the point where I could choose between campaign, multiplayer and zombies, when choosing multiplayer, it would freeze on a black screen.
My disc is clean and scratch free. None of my other games have this problem, and I've checked several. I've tried all the usual remedies that I see online (delete and re-install, repair ps3, etc.). I'm beginning to think I'll never play this again.