Hyper Void

Overview

Hyper Void is a 3D shooter video game, developed and published by InFramez Technology. It was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows.

Hyper Void is a 3D tube shooter. the RM-24, a combat space ship armed with 3 different weapons that can be fired simultaneously and are assigned to three different buttons. The weapons vary in damage, rate of fire and bullet speed and all of them consume energy from a shared power source that recharges over time, requiring the player to think and aim rather than just hold the fire button indefinitely.

It is the year 2960, roughly 300 years after the events of Wing Commander Prophecy. Humans expanded their territory in space to vast areas across many galaxies. The United Observatory Network (UON) being tasked with monitoring and recording incidents and effects of Super Nova explosions within or near human territories, one day records a Super Nova explosion in Alpha Centauri that exhibited certain unrecognizable patterns. Regardless, the explosion was filed as SN-2960rda and was left open for investigation.

As the developers were employees at EA Montreal, development on the game started in April 2013 after the studio's closure date and made its first release on PlayStation 3 initially, then it followed on PlayStation 4 then on Xbox One. The game was done on the company's internal engine, which supported Windows PC only at the beginning of the project. Support for other platforms was added gradually which led to the individual consecutive releases. The project took one year and 10 months from start until the first release. It was entirely financed from the savings of the developers preferred this over going to a publisher and sacrificing on creative control.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the game has received an average score of 70, based on 5 reviews indicating "Mixed or average reviews".

Official trailer

Announcement Trailer. Watch on YouTube

Screenshots

Game details

Genres

Shooter, Indie

Developer

InFramez Technology

Publisher

InFramez Technology

Platforms

PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One

Age rating

ESRB E10+

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

No

Co op

No

Age ratings

CLASS IND

10

PEGI

7

ESRB

E10+

Release dates

Subscription history

Space and patches

Space neededAbout 1 GB

Playable today

Playable offline todayYes

Single-player only, with no online features.

Online

Plays offlineYes

Credits

Region

US