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{{Infobox_Software
| name                   = Project Xenocide
| logo                   = 
| developer              = [http://docs.projectxenocide.com/index.php/General:Development_Team Development Team]
| latest_preview_version = [http://www.projectxenocide.com/downloads.html Progress Release 0.4.0.1835]
| latest_preview_date    = [[April 4]], [[2008]]
| operating_system       = [[Windows]]
| genre                  = Tactical [[Real-time strategy]]
| license                = [[BY-NC-SA|Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence]]
| website                = [http://www.projectxenocide.com/ www.projectxenocide.com/]
}}

'''''Project Xenocide''''' is an [[open source]] game heavily inspired by [[X-COM]], the classic game series from Microprose (now [[2K_Games|2K Games]]).

==Gameplay==
The style of Project Xenocide is planned to mimic the first two games in the X-Com series.

The player is in the place of the "Commander of Project Xenocide", a secret organization whose sole purpose is to protect the Earth from the Alien Invasion.

The game combines two main phases of play: a strategic "planetview" (called Planetscape) to manage resources and bases on a planetary scale, and a "battleview" (called Battlescape, under development) to match player-controlled squads against alien soldiers in turn-based combat. 

In planetscape, the player will also be able to manufacture items or resources, conduct research on salvaged alien artefacts or new proposals on human technology, equip his soldier squads and aircrafts with armor, weapons and various equipment (like medipacks and different kinds of grenades) and check his funding status.

==Development==

Historically Xenocide was developed utilizing C++ and the platform-independent [[OGRE3D|Ogre 3D]] graphics engine.  In recent months however a new branch based on [[Microsoft_XNA|Microsoft XNA]] has gained favor among the current developers.

On [[2007-10-24]] a new public Progress Release has been made available. That Progress Release bearing the Minor Number 2 features employee management, Research, Manufacturing, item transfer, illuminated night map and all the different types of UFO missions. Additionally many 3D models have been added. 

An audio pack including the games' music has also been released as a separate download.

==Preliminary system requirements==
* [[Pentium IV]] or [[AMD Athlon]] 1800 Mhz
* 512 MB [[RAM]]
* [[Windows XP]] or [[Windows Vista|Vista]]
* [[DirectX]] 9.0c
* [[.NET Framework]] 2.0
* [[Microsoft XNA|XNA]] Refresh 1.0 Runtime Distribution
* [[GeForce 5 Series|GeForce FX 5200]] / [[Radeon R200|ATI Radeon 9200]] or comparable, all with recent drivers.

==References==
[http://www.projectxenocide.com/ Project Xenocide homepage]<br>
[http://www.xcomufo.com/forums xcomufo forums]<br>
[http://www.projectxenocide.com/art_recent_add.html Image Gallery]<br>
[http://www.entdepot.com/interviews/projectxenocide/ Interview @ entdepot.com of an old C++ version]<br>


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