This item allows players to witness battles through the eyes of the Colossus they are fighting. Though removed from the final game, it is semi-functional in the Preview version, an unfinished demo of the title leaked online.
Players must be in range of a Colossus before they are able to use the item, activated by pressing R3 on the controller. If the giant is too far away, a low ‘beep’ will sound when the button is pushed, indicating that one must move closer. Full control the camera is impossible while using the Eye, but pressing R2 causes it to zoom in and out.
The Eye of the Colossus can even be used before a Colossus awakens, if players can get close enough to one without triggering the battle to start. Doing this results in a stationary frame of what the Colossus sees. Then, players can watch it come to life from its point of view.
If activated while a Colossus is dying, the Eye morbidly allows players to glimpse Colossus’s view of its own death. This also permits players control of Wander as the giant is dying, which normally isn’t possible.
Because the item is unfinished, it does not always function properly. It seems to work well in the battles with Colossi 1, 4, 5, 6, 13, and 15. When used in fights with the other Colossi, however, the camera sinks down into the creatures’ bodies, then rises back out again. Mysteriously, it does not function on Colossus 3 at all.
Source: glitterberri.com
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Did you know Shadow of the Colossus has unused and unfinished items?
• The Eye of the Colossus lets you see things from the giant’s point of view.
• The Mask of the Titans would increase Wander’s attack power.
• The fiery stick Wander uses against Colossus 11 (the bull in the temple) can only be lit in that Colossi’s area.
Read all about them here!
Sony has hired Hanna screenwriter Seth Locchead to work on a script written by Juston Marks for a film adaptation of Shadow of the Colossus, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Marks was the original writer brought in back in 2009, and Lochhead steps in now to work with director Josh Trank (Chronicle) on polishing the story off.
Team Ico PlayStation 2-era classic should need no introduction with the G4 crowd. The game sends the young Wander and his trusty steed Argo off an adventure across a barren land populated by 16 towering creatures, the titular Colossi. Wander's goal is to defeat the inhabitants of the land so that he can free his lady love from a magically induced sleep.
Sony bringing in a second writer to polish of this long in development script is an extremely good sign. Be hopeful, Team Ico fans. Be very hopeful.
That place... began from the resonance of intersecting
points... They are memories replaced by ens and naught and
etched into stone. Blood, young sprouts, sky--and the one
with the ability to control beings created from light... In
that world, it is said that if one should wish it one can
bring back the souls of the dead... ...But to trespass upon
that land is strictly forbidden...
Emon, Shadow of The Colossus