Me too, not a happy bunny. I got all the way to bloodstone and about to enter the cave to see the pirate.

Game has not crashed, it still loads, but graphics don't load correctly and if I enter the menu it takes forever and does not load all of it. Cleared cache and made no difference. If anything the loading screen seems to crash now!!!

Not sure what to do now, send it back or wait for a patch? Anyone? Took tomorrow off work too to play it!

Update, removed hard drive, put in memory card and another profile. Locked up on market cut scene after bird. So looks like its the disc. This may be as when I got it first thing I noticed was disc noise was far too loud, sounded like drive was taking off!!