* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''. Entirely justified [[spoiler:because you switch bodies with Lynx]].
* In ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', the [[spoiler:final level, should you choose to play it as Orsted]].
* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekArmada'', the fourth series of missions has you playing as the Borg. The final mission in that series has you assimilating Earth.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', you don't ''control'' [[spoiler: Sephiroth]] during Cloud's flashbacks, but he is in your party, and it definitely fulfills the role of showing the player that he's ridiculously powerful.
**  He also glares (or whatever ... means) at the ''player'' if you try to mess with his equipment. 
* ''BreathOfFire 4'' has segments where you play as Fou-Lu. At the end of the game you can choose to have TheHero [[spoiler: (they're both halves of a dragon god) merge with him, kill all your friends and TakeOverTheWorld]].
* The second campaign of ''{{Starcraft}}'' has you playing as the Zerg, the HordeOfAlienLocusts who kill and assimilate everything they come across. The ''Brood War'' expansion later lets you play as MagnificentBastard Kerrigan.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', a handful of quests in Icecrown allow you (the player) to take control of Arthas the Lich King in flashback sequences, thanks to a ghost who specifically wants to show the hero how powerful the Lich King is.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} 3'' has a much more extensive version of this, where a quarter of the gameplay is devoted to massacring countries, raising armies of the undead, and desecrating everything that your main hero once held dear. This hero being, in fact, Arthas as a Death Knight.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'' puts you in control of [[spoiler: [[LiteralSplitPersonality Kain's evil side]]]] on his quest to destroy [[spoiler: [[MurderTheHypotenuse Cecil and have Rosa for himself]] ]].
** You also get a chance to play as Golbez in a flashback sequence: you basically take control of Golbez in a recreation of each of the fights with him from the original game.
* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' lets you [[spoiler: stomp around as the resurrected Dormin for a few moments before inevitably getting [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in a new can.]]]]
* Not really villains, but Part III of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn]]'' has the player alternately controlling two forces fighting each other. And for a straight example, the BlackKnight is one of the main villains and is controllable in a couple of maps.
* The first historical stage of ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' has you playing [[TheDragon Pious Augustus]], and it's your choice as to which EldritchAbomination BigBad he devotes himself to. Unusually, while highly competent in melee combat, Pious is possibly the overall weakest character in the game as he doesn't have any access to the Tome's magic and lacks any ranged weapons. Of course, this takes place before he becomes TheDragon of the game and is just a normal guy with a sword.
** Yet, he has very high health and stamina, and unlike any other character he has unlimited sanity because he's that dedicated to the mission. He'd be pretty fun to play with in a level that didn't last five minutes.

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* ''{{Tenchu}} 2'' let you play as Tatsumaru.
* Though not ATasteOfPower, as unlocking the mode requires OneHundredPercentCompletion, Luc's Chapter in ''SuikodenIII'' is definitely Villain Shoes.
* Like the ''FFVII'' example above, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' allows you to control [[spoiler:Seymour]] several hours before he's revealed to be a villain by anything other than [[spoiler:[[MusicalSpoiler suspiciously unnerving leitmotifs]] and being a non-hero {{Bishonen}}]] in a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' game. It also, like [[spoiler:Sephiroth]] above, establishes [[spoiler:Seymour]]'s sheer power quite well and drives the point home by making his partner for that segment, [[BadAss Auron]], seem totally ''useless'' in comparison.
* The Bowser segments in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. These are particularly awesome segments because they're reconstructed versions of levels from the original ''SuperMarioBros''. All those enemies and obstacles Mario had to carefully maneuver around all those years ago? Yeah, Bowser just smashes and burns his way through, no big.
** In the event that you manage to fail those levels, Bowser just gets to try again because, unlike Mario, Bowser has ''infinite'' lives.
* One quest in ''VideoGame/{{Dragonfable}}'' lets you play as the AxCrazy [[PlayingWithFire pyromancer]] Xan. [[{{Pyromaniac}} Fire]] [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer ensues]].
* In ''Ultimate {{Spider-Man}}'' for Nintendo DS, the first level is playable with Green Goblin.
** In the home console versions (and maybe the DS, I don't know), you control Venom, the main villain, for about half of the missions. Despite this shared screentime, he is still clearly the villain, as the player always controls Spider-Man during their fights.
* ''VideoGame/{{Siren}} 2'' had a level playable as a Shibito.
* In the NintendoDS remake of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', there was a segment where you play as Golbez in his childhood, although it was only in a town, and with no battles.

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* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekArmada'', the fourth series of missions has you playing as the Borg. The final mission in that series has you assimilating Earth.
* The second campaign of ''{{Starcraft}}'' has you playing as the Zerg, the HordeOfAlienLocusts who kill and assimilate everything they come across. The ''Brood War'' expansion later lets you play as MagnificentBastard Kerrigan.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} 3'' has a much more extensive version of this, where a quarter of the gameplay is devoted to massacring countries, raising armies of the undead, and desecrating everything that your main hero once held dear. This hero being, in fact, Arthas as a Death Knight.
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[[folder: Role Playing Game]]
* In ''LostOdyssey'', players get to take a crack at [[spoiler:wielding Gongora's magic against his hapless apprentices.]] (Also a KickTheDog.)
** This scene also involves a decision that affects a future BossBattle. [[spoiler:Whichever apprentice you kill last will be KilledOffForReal and won't be present when the party eventually fights them]].
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''. Entirely justified [[spoiler:because you switch bodies with Lynx]].
* In ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', the [[spoiler:final level, should you choose to play it as Orsted]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', you don't ''control'' [[spoiler: Sephiroth]] during Cloud's flashbacks, but he is in your party, and it definitely fulfills the role of showing the player that he's ridiculously powerful.
**  He also glares (or whatever ... means) at the ''player'' if you try to mess with his equipment.
* ''BreathOfFire 4'' has segments where you play as Fou-Lu. At the end of the game you can choose to have TheHero [[spoiler: (they're both halves of a dragon god) merge with him, kill all your friends and TakeOverTheWorld]].
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', a handful of quests in Icecrown allow you (the player) to take control of Arthas the Lich King in flashback sequences, thanks to a ghost who specifically wants to show the hero how powerful the Lich King is.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'' puts you in control of [[spoiler: [[LiteralSplitPersonality Kain's evil side]]]] on his quest to destroy [[spoiler: [[MurderTheHypotenuse Cecil and have Rosa for himself]] ]].
** You also get a chance to play as Golbez in a flashback sequence: you basically take control of Golbez in a recreation of each of the fights with him from the original game.
 * Not really villains, but Part III of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn]]'' has the player alternately controlling two forces fighting each other. And for a straight example, the BlackKnight is one of the main villains and is controllable in a couple of maps.
* Though not ATasteOfPower, as unlocking the mode requires OneHundredPercentCompletion, Luc's Chapter in ''SuikodenIII'' is definitely Villain Shoes.
* Like the ''FFVII'' example above, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' allows you to control [[spoiler:Seymour]] several hours before he's revealed to be a villain by anything other than [[spoiler:[[MusicalSpoiler suspiciously unnerving leitmotifs]] and being a non-hero {{Bishonen}}]] in a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' game. It also, like [[spoiler:Sephiroth]] above, establishes [[spoiler:Seymour]]'s sheer power quite well and drives the point home by making his partner for that segment, [[BadAss Auron]], seem totally ''useless'' in comparison.
* The Bowser segments in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. These are particularly awesome segments because they're reconstructed versions of levels from the original ''SuperMarioBros''. All those enemies and obstacles Mario had to carefully maneuver around all those years ago? Yeah, Bowser just smashes and burns his way through, no big.
** In the event that you manage to fail those levels, Bowser just gets to try again because, unlike Mario, Bowser has ''infinite'' lives.
* One quest in ''VideoGame/{{Dragonfable}}'' lets you play as the AxCrazy [[PlayingWithFire pyromancer]] Xan. [[{{Pyromaniac}} Fire]] [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer ensues]].
* In the NintendoDS remake of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', there was a segment where you play as Golbez in his childhood, although it was only in a town, and with no battles.

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