Loading is like 5 seconds for me. Not a bad deal. Took a few minutes to install to the hard drive when I first got the game.
Bootup has some really fucking annoying checks. WTF. It's like, "Checking game cache. Okay, you're game cache hasn't magically exploded since last time you played. Loading save. Do you want to load a save? Really? Oh, okay. Load completed."
Whatever, gameplay is so awesome so far. I'm not great at VF so I can't tell the "omg gimped sux AI" and once I have two sticks it won't matter. The AI is good enough to hand my ass to me.
And the graphics :O :O :O