User blog comment:Hunter2013/Best character/@comment-3171236-20140523212408

In my opinion, the best character is Viktor Reznov.

Only one other character can make you have sympathy for them being psychopaths, and that other character is Raul Menendez. Viktor Reznov goes through horrible things, and comes out on the other side even more fanatical and hateful. He saw his father killed by Nazis, his country obliterated by war, his troops killed, and finally his best friend betrayed and murdened, and he himself imprisoned for it.

He becomes so crazed that he views every one of his allies as a tool and a weapon to use against his own enemies. He takes a CIA prisoner under his wing, tells him a few stories, and turns the Soviet's brainwashing back on them, as it his best way at getting revenge for Petrenko. He puts a synpathetic face on a soldier scarred by death and destruction to the point of madness.