Summary

• Multiple character perspectives in games like Gotham Knights and Resident Evil Zero add depth to gameplay experiences.
• Games like Lego and the upcoming Alan Wake 2 use character swapping mechanics to enhance puzzle-solving and storytelling.
• Embracing unique character switches in titles like Shady Part of Me and Beyond: Two Souls offers fresh and innovative gameplay.

Getting to play as multiple characters is a nice option to have in games, whether in co-op, singleplayer settings, or both. Some games like those from Supermassive are notorious for changing character perspectives throughout the gameplay. Then other games, like Assassin's Creed and Red Dead Redemption 2, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:can switch protagonists halfwa🏅y through.

But there are plenty of video games that give you multiple perspectives and char📖acters to explore in a single play🐓through by allowing the option to swap them out whenever you desire. This mechanic can also be used in new and interesting ways, and these games make it the most satisfying.

10 ♔ ജ Gotham Knights

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gotham Knights may not have been the successor to the Batman Arkham trilogy many could've hoped for, but at least it didn't go the live-service route like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel's Avengers and Rocksteady's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Suicide Squad. That also means switching characters can happen in a much more clever way (because the game 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:does♉ let you level up all four protagonists and try out their unique abilities).

Your central hub is a Gotham City clock tower known as the Belfry, where Alfred and the rest of the Bat Family, the Batcomputer, evidence board, and some side activities are at your disposal. If you want to switch out to a different hero, it acts like a 'suit up' moment by interacting with a new costume of your choice that you see there on display.

9 ꦿ Alone In Th♓e Dark

The 2024 reimagining of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alone in the Dark provides a more interesting take on the original game's character selection, as it incentivizes a replay of the main story without the need for New Game Plus. You can choose once again be💮tween Emily Hartwood or P.I. Edw🌳ard Carnby, but you'll want to step into the shoes of both characters to grasp the full picture.

While not character swapping in the traditional sense, you will essentially play through 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Lovecraftian Southe�ꦡ�rn Gothic atmosphere once as David Harbour's Edward and then switch to Jodie Comer's Emily on a second run. Doing so will reveal different interactions with NPCs, new story sections and collectibles, and even alternate endings.

8 Resident Evil Zero And Revela🤪tions 2

Most 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil games will have you stick with Leon, Jill, Chris, Claire, or Ethan Winters, and some, like Resident Evil 2 and 6, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:feature multiple character campaigns in one game. But then there's Resident Evil Zero and the 2015 sequel to Resident Evil Revelations, which have you play as dual protagonists that can be switched easily on the spot throughout the gameplay.

RE Zero and Revelations 2 are the only Resident Evil games thus far to implement a system of partner switching to solve puzzles, with the former allowing you to change between S.T.A.R.S. medic Rebecca Chambers and escaped convict Billy Coen and the latter 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:giving you a co-op option or letting you switch between Claire Redfield an꧂d Moira Burton in🔯 single-player through a button prompt.

7 Assassin's Creed Syndicate

Like its titular ancestral assassins, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed series took plenty of leaps of faith with story direction, mechanics, and gameplay throughout installments, with Odyssey and Valhalla finally giving you the option to play as either a male or female protagonist. But 2015's Assassin's Creed Syndicate lets you play as both twins Evie and Jacob Frye 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:of the Frye twins duo.

Taking it straight out of GTA 5's playbook, there are certain missions in the game that entail you being either the brother, Jacob, or his sister, Evie. You can switch between the two with the toggle of a button straight from the menu, which will swap their portraits and then smoothly see you in the shoes of the new sibling upon re-entering the game.

6 Marvel's Spider-Man 2

The first Insomniac 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spider-Man game was largely an exploration of Peter Parker's life in and out of his costumed superhero alter ego, which itself can be considered a character swap. Then, you also sometimes got to play certain story missions as either Miles Morales or M.J. Watson and had a spin-off game dedicated to Miles Morales' character.

For 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel's Spider-Man 2, the logical next step in the Spider family evolution was to bring Miles and Peter together and allow you to change between them at any point, with Miles even having 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:optional side act꧅iviti♚es and bosses like Mysterio. "Greater together" is the motto, and switching 🐷b﷽etween the Spider-Men is as fast and satisfying as the traversal mechanics of web-slinging and gliding.

5 GTA 5

Claud🍰e, Tommy Vercetti, Carl Johnson, and Niko Bellic headlined the original GTA games as solo protagonists, but GTA 5 allows you to be in the shoes of three different criminals in the open-world story — Michael De Santa, Franklin Clinton, and Trevor Philips. Each character has their own fun dialogue, missions, and moments, and you'll switch between them at will.

The mechanic is as simple as heading to a character wheel that pops up on-screen and selecting from any of the three protagonists. You get a nice transition that takes you out to the overview of the map, and the camera moves to wherever the character you 🐎selected is at that moment in time, typically engaging in a conversation or doing 𒉰something interesting.

4 ♛ Alan Wake 2

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alan Wake 2's attention to detail, extensive lore, Lynchian inspirations, and Eas♔ter꧒ egg connections to the greater Remedy universe are why many fans adore this survival horror gem. You even have music that serves as a lyrical summary of character developments and plot points, so it's no surprise the character switching is also tied to the weirdest part of its story.

To have Saga switch to Alan inside the eerie Dark Place dimension, and vice versa, you must interact with a janitor's bucket that will send you into the void of a loading screen vortex before you're back in the shoes of either protagonist. It may be wildly unconventional, but a manuscript will reveal that the janitor Ahti (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:also from Control) is teased to be a Finnish god using the wate🥂r from Cauldron Lake to control the travel between dimensions.

3 Shady Part Of ♓Me ♈

When you think of a publisher like Focus Entertainment, you might be familiar with its games Atomic Heart, Vampyr, A🐼 Pla🃏gue Tale: Innocence, and GreedFall, but don't let this Little Nightmares-inspired puzzle-platforming gem pass you by. The coolest part of Shady Part of Me is how it works in the concept of shadows for the puzzle elements, and the fact it's narrated by168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Game of Thrones star Hannah Murray.

It's a game where the mechanic of switching between the main character and her shadow 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:literally plays with perspectives, the shadow form being in a 2D space occupied in a 3D game world. It's unique and inventive, and the art direction and storytelling are likewise brilliant and atmospheric.

2 ꦚ Beyond: Twoꦉ Souls

Beyond: Two Souls was the next game after Quantic Dream's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Heavy Rain, and it ended up getting overshadowed by both its predecessor and its successor, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Detroit: Become Human. But the story and gameplay handled character switching in a much different way from the studio's other titles, largely focusing on one protagonist rather than giving you the perspectives of multiple.

Well, technically, there's still two. You play mainly as Jodie Holmes, but there's an entity named Aiden joined to her body, who's really the spirit of her stillborn twin brother. When you switch control to Aiden, the environment changes to that of a more distorted one, with certain objects and people highlighted with colorful auras to interact with. Aiden himself is represented by a purple stream of energy.

1 🐈 Lego G🀅ames

With all these games offering some form of character-swapping, the one series that still reigns supreme above all in how satisfying it can be is Lego and Traveler's Tales' sprawling catalog of titles. All the Lego games have mastered their puzzle and brick-building mechanics that involve switching characters in such a way as to make everything so seamless, smooth, and well-established.

You know when you'll need to switch to another character if required to rummage through tight crawl spaces, whether you're a hobbit in Lego The Lord of the Rings or an Ewok or a small droid in Lego Star Wars, or because you need a specific character's ability for traversal. And it's done as a simple back-and-forth 'energy transfer,' with a button press quickly transferring your soul to the control of your Lego companion.