Yesterday was a massive day for Destiny fans with the announcement of private matches in the Crucible, and deeper clan support in the game. We also posted our hands-on impressions of Rise of Iron?s coming Crucible game mode, Supremacy, on two of the four new maps. The Crucible wasn?t all we got the chance to play on our trip to Bungie though, and today we?re taking a look at the new strike Rise of Iron will introduce, “The Wretched Eye.”
Rise of Iron introduces SIVA, an long buried technological plague that has been unearthed and is being used by the Fallen (or are the Fallen being used by the SIVA" Something to think about), a faction of enemies known as Devil Splicers. It seems like the Fallen won’t be the only race we’ll see affected by the SIVA though. For The Wretched Eye strike, a Splicer Captain has removed the eye of a Hive Ogre to use as a gun, and infused the ogre with SIVA, creating a Frankenstein’s monster style abomination. Yup, that’s right, a massive fight with a captain that can shoot ogre beams and a tech’d out ogre that is arguably more machine than Hive at this point.  Before we enter the boss fight though, we had to run through a series of abandoned missile silos in the Plaguelands. While we didn’t have the opportunity to wander off the beaten path and explore the wider area, the initial glimpse of the area just outside of the Cosmodrome’s wall before descending into the silos showed a nostalg...