Okay I get home after purchasing a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV expecting to have a great first few hours with the game.

I loaded the game up and made the initial installation on the HDD without incident. The trouble started in the game's opening cutscene. For some reason after a few minutes the audio partially cuts out, the background noise keeps playing but the dialogue, sound effects and music are muted. I try and quit the game to restart it and try again, but my system then freezes. I perform a manual reset and then complete the 12 steps that Take-Two have posted to help temporarily fix any problems.

When I next insert the GTAIV disc, the game isn't registered by the system and won't start up. I figured that I could just go back tomorrow and get a new copy of the game without trouble. But when I try to play Dark Sector, that game won't play either and neither did Oblivion or Assassin's Creed or Jericho etc...

Now my PS3 won't play any games whatsoever. If this was caused entirely by GTAIV than why did R* allow a game with this many problems to be released. This is the most p***ed I've been in a long time.

Update: Thanks for the input guys . The guys at Gamestation were pretty helpful and replaced my faulty system for me (though I did have to travel around to find a store that had PS3s in stock). They even gave me the Gran Turismo 5: Prologue bundle ! I don't think the system's crash was caused entirely by GTA, but I'll probably wait until R* release a patch before I try and play it again.