While moral choice systems are the feature du jour for contemporary games, there has been a curious lack of games that allow players to play as the villain, especially in recent times. Characters in various open-world crime games such as Grand Theft Auto are certainly despicable, being vicious, violent criminals (especially the "hero" of Saints Row 2), but even then, the player is not implied to be villainous, diabolical, or really evil, terms usually reserved to describe the antagonists in superhero fiction.
