Hazeron sports many awesome features, and is basically many types of games, all wrapped in to one. It is a civilization simulator that allows you to design your own species that will be used by yourself to populate your own uniquely generated planet, so that you may begin your Empire. Climb a detailed tech tree and catapult your empire in to space.
It is also a space simulator that allows you to design, man (with NPCs OR players, or both), and fight with your own ships. Create vast NPC and player controlled fleets, or fly around in a space fighter. You can be a colony ship, going around seeding the vastness of space with your civilization. Or a survey ship, looking for resources for your civilization, or other empires to crush or make friends with.
It's much more than that, but it's hard to explain in one go.
You can create your own empire, start from scratch, ally with friends, and grow, fight, and conquer. Or you can join a pre-existing empire and help it grow.
The game is completely free, as it is in alpha, so you have nothing to lose by downloading it and giving it a go!
My personal favorite thing about the game is the ability to design your own ships, and the freedom you are given in doing this. You get to decide everything, from shape to fire power. You decide how many medical bays, how many troop/crew bunks, how many officers, how many teleporters. Even how many power capacitors or gravity drives, or how many warp drives, etc... is put in to the ship. To truly appreciate it, tho, you need to try it yourself.
The game IS an MMO, and it takes place in a large galaxy filled with other players. The only thing protecting you in the beginning is the fact that you haven't been found yet by a bigger, more advanced empire. Or if you're lucky, maybe you're neighbors will be nice and non-aggressive.
Spaceflight in the game follows Newtonian physics. That means if you propel yourself in a direction, you are going to keep going that direction until you correct it. This gets easier with the more advanced gravity drives, but it makes things hard during your first few rocket flights.
And damn, there is nothing like designing your own race, working hard to make it grow, getting it from no-tech to space-tech. Loading up your first rocket with supplies for your first moon colony, getting in, having no idea what the hell you're doing and then launching yourself in to space at high speeds, and then ****ing up and ejecting yourself in to the void.... It's pretty damn fun.
Then after 2-3 attempts (if you're like me) you finally get it right, make it to one of the moons in your solar system, set up a colony, and start getting the resources needed to produce more advanced spacecrafts. It's an awesome feeling, even if it's a game.
The game IS still in alpha, or pre-alpha, I can't remember which. So a lot of the graphics and textures are place-holders. Some of the features aren't in yet, some features are in, but aren't completed. So just stay tuned in to the game if you feel that it's missing to much, or is to ugly, for you to enjoy.
Shores of Hazeron
