German Shooter 'Crysis 2' Tops Most-Pirated Computer Games List In 2011

COLOGNE, Germany – Sci-fi war game Crysis 2 designed by German developers Crytek earned the dubious honor of most pirated computer game of 2011, with 3.92 million users downloading the shooter illegally on BitTorrent filesharing sites.

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Filesharing news site TorrentFreak listed Crysis 2 as the most pirated PC game of the year, ahead of Activision Blizzard's blockbuster title Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 with 3.65 million illegal downloads. COD:MW3 was number two on the most-pirated games for the Xbox360 platform, with 830,000, behind Epic Games' Gears of War 3 with 890,000. The Xbox version of Crysis 2 did not make the top 5 most-pirated list. For the Wii platform, Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy 2 was the most pirated game a second year in a row, with 1.28 million illegal downloads in 2011.

Even among legitimate critics, Crysis 2 was a stand-out performer last year. The title swept the German Developer Awards last month, taking six trophies, including best German game. Crysis 2 also picked up several international honors, among them the videogame graphics of the year prize at the 3D world CG awards and best European soundtrack honors at the Fun & Serious Games Festival.