- change protagonist during game except picking up weapons and power ups
- Protagonist enters some vehicle.
- select protagonist with different skills before or during the game
- But additional list for games like Army moves, Navy moves, H.A.T.E., Star dust etc.:
Protagonist changes for different levels though game genre stays the same or almost the same.
But the player has NO CHOICE.
Please mention if it is the last no-choice case as it is hard to find out this fact if you are not familiar with the game.
Protagonist transformations:
Transformers (you play with a robot or a car)
Vixen (you play with a woman or a vixen)
Ikari warriors (you play as a soldier / tank when you enter / leave tank)
Protagonist selection:
Silkworm (jeep or hilicopter)
Golden axe (you select your character with different weapons / skills / magic before the game)
Head over heels (you select character with different skills during the game)
The genres that should be excluded from this list
chess and other board games
RPG games - you use different horoes by design
wargames - almost any of them uses a pack of units with different 'skills' like infantry or cavalry