Roberts Space Industries, the company behind the hugely popular Star Citizen space simulation game have announced today that the game's Alpha 2.0 version is now available for all backers to play.

 The major milestone comes as Star Citizen is fast closing in on another milestone, more than $100 million in crowd funding. Star Citizen is recognized by the Guinness World Records for being the top crowd funded project and top crowd funded game in the world.

Alpha 2.0 is a major breakthrough for Stars Citizen, It represents the first true slice of gameplay that includes much of what Star Citizen will bring to our fans: thrilling space combat in a massive play area, first person battles and multi-crew ships where you and your friends can adventure together in a portion of the universe on the same ship. It's all technology that has never been undertaken to this scale and depth before in our industry. 

Some of the other features in Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 are:

  -  EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) - drift out of your ship’s airlock and venture into the void of space and back
  -  20+ random encounters - combat and exploration (lost wrecks and abandoned space stations)
  -  Quantum travel - travel in ships through the vastness of space at 0.2 the speed of light
  -  New flyable ships including the Constellation, the Retaliator and the Vanguard.
  -  Large world tech - explore extremely large expanses of space seamlessly, without loading screens
  -  Locations to explore:
  -  One planet (Crusader)
  -  Three moons
  -  Three distinct space stations
  -  One repair/restock station
  -  Nine comm arrays
  -  Wreckage to scavenge and never-ending battles in the Yela asteroid belt

Star Citizen - Alpha 2.0 Now Available