Dorian Hart
Lead Designer
My favorite new villain is Red Oktober. I like her attitude, which combines typical villainous arrogance with a fierce devotion to the Russian motherland. I like her role in the story, where that same devotion drives her to make an unexpected alliance. And I especially like her ability to turn her enemies into toads, which inspired my favorite of artist Robb Waters' comic covers. You'll know the one I mean.

I also have a soft spot for the Eyes of the Reich, because they're a great example of a designer's concept taken to great places by art and sound. I had the idea early on that the Germans had experimented to create a genetic horror - a floating eyeball that fired various flavors of beam energy from its pupil. Robb took that and made it into a brain suspended in a jar, with tentacles and jets for flight - one of the best looking new characters in the game. Eric Brosius, our fantastic sound designer, gave it a creepy, echoing mechanical voice to complete the package.​