Ah...the All Seeing Eye or more commonly known as the ASE. The ASE has given 'The Conduit' a more original and fresh feeling, helping it stands out among the hundreds of generic FPS's out there in the market today and the Wii's shooters that are generic to Well about PSone shooters.
This device in all its futuristic glow of orb beauty isn't there to look nice with its led's peppered around the sphere hitting off a Star Trek shine as it leaves you wondering how the hell hovers mystically above Mr Fords hand! It adds a unique feature of gameplay to 'The Conduit'.

 

 The ASE which is recovered by the player early on and used to solve various puzzles throughout the game adds a puzzle element of gameplay not known to shooters on any console! The puzzles can range from basic tasks such as sliding a couple of re-arranged pieces to form a well known and obvious picture/pattern to using it to find clues printed upon walls as you scan and search the whole blasted level looking for clues to get that darn puzzle blocking your path solved! The ASE can also do many other features such as, detect hidden traps and enemies scattered throughout a level before they detect you,reveal secluded secret features in the enviroment that can help the player to progress or unlock new weapons and extras , then to uncovering invisible doors and platforms and other interactive object.

Now a bit more into ASE jaw dropping design.
It's a sleek sexy and cute gadget, with its shimmering silver and golden glow as you sprint through the bump mapped, blur light.Ah back to the point! The silver gives it a very futuristic look, where the lights add to the "tech" making it seem more like a gadeget. And the new quantam 3 engine does not hurt its looks..no sirr-rey. And the design has slyly been modified and changed passing our blind eye as they polished up the game's graphics!
(Check this clean babe of a gadget as it spot lights a dirty drudge!)

You can see here how as they developed the graphics of the game..so did the ASE.