Zoran Lazarevic makes GamingBolt.com's Intimidating Villains of 2009 List

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We have all forms of entertainment from movies to video games. But there is a catch. In all those forms we have a bad guy present. An intimidating antagonist makes such a big impact these days that a game can sail along to success just due to the fact that the gamers felt that the antagonist was interesting. 2009 has been a great year not only in the terms of the quality of the games released but the villains in those games. They will fight super heroes, try and be immortal and what not. GamingBolt is proud to present the five villains in video games that made a huge impact in 2009 (in no particular order).

Zoran Lazarevic
Game: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Catch point: Attitude and the willingness to sacrifice anything in order to achieve his goal.
Biggest Asset: He is a Serbian war criminal!



Zoran Lazarevic was one of the best antagonists that I have seen in a video game for some time now. Naughty Dog gave their best shot with this villain as Navarro, the bad guy from Drakes Fortune really fails badly compared to Lazarevic. Zoran Lazarevic had a professional team of soldiers supported by tanks and helicopters. The biggest asset of this man was his brutality and his heart of stone. In one of the scenes he kills his own soldier so that he can find the way to Shambala. Truly a bad ass villain.

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[reedybeanz.livejournal.com]

i never thought Navarro was a lame villain. i think people were just upset that they spent the whole game being antagonized by Roman and disliking him (and who had earned his villain cred by point blank shooting Sully in the chest, goddamnit!) and then at the end it's like "BAM now you got a different guy to face off against, what now!?" Navarro seems like a more dangerous, more competant version of Flynn to me. Flynn WISHES he could be badass like Navarro and pull a Starscream like he did.

Lazarevic gets a lot more face-to-face time with Drake in this game too, which I think is super important in making him a better villain. he can much more directly antagonize Drake on a personal level, making the encounters way more emotionally intense and putting more at stake. Roman and Navarro had minimal personal encounters with Drake so some of the urgency was lost i feel.