Eagle Vision
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Eagle Vision is an ability that Ezio, Altaïr, Desmond Miles and presumably others of Assassin lineage possess. The user is able to instinctively sense how people and objects relate to him, which manifests as a colored glowing.
Assassin's Creed
It is a first-person view in Assassin's Creed. It changes the camera's point of view to that of Altaïr, and uses different color glows to distinguish for the player between different classes of NPCs:
| Soldiers or Enemies (Red Glow) |
Informants (White Glow) |
| Allies (Blue Glow) |
Objective or Assassination Target (Yellow Glow) |
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To use Eagle Vision, the player must press the Head button. Depending on control settings, the Head button will most likely be either File:PlayStationTriangle.svg (for Playstation 3), Y (for Xbox 360), or E (for PC default layout). In addition, the Synchronization bar must be at its current maximum capacity, otherwise pressing the Head button will instead result in a first-person view with no extra benefits.
At the end of Assassin's Creed, Desmond gains the ability to use Eagle Vision outside of the Animus. He sees Lucy glowing blue and Warren Vidic glowing red. Eagle Vision also reveals Cryptic Messages Subject 16 wrote with his own blood in the Abstergo Laboratory.
Assassin's Creed II
In Assassin's Creed II, Desmond discovers a new application of this power; using it on a keypad which Lucy lacks a code to unlock reveals the fingerprints of previous users. A simple process of elimination thus enables him to unlock the door. Ezio can also use the Eagle Vision like his ancestor. A key difference of the abilities is that Ezio can move while using the ability in exchange of the glow of the NPC character(s) not retaining once Eagle Vision is inactive. The HUD disappears while using the ability and it will be a third-person view.
Like the previous game, invisible writing and now Glyphs can be viewed, along with the the mass of swirling numbers and symbols that accompany Glyphs.
In one of Subject 16's truth files entitled Bloodlines, you must pick out the paintings that contain humans that have had children with gods. After you do this, Subject 16 says, "Behold the Assassins, the children of two worlds!" He also says, "Why do we have these gifts? Because it's in our blood!" This implies that because Altaïr, Ezio, Desmond and Subject 16 all have Eagle Vision, their bloodline is connected to one of Those Who Came Before.
Trivia
- An Assassin guard in the Kingdom can be seen as glowing red, but reacts as all other guards do. It is theorized that this guard is the traitor that aided Masun.
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