Fallout 3 Quest Mods Review #85 by TrickyTrack00
Mod Name: Project Phoenix
Mod Type: Quest/Location/Dungeon
Original Creator: Tyrann1984
Original Links: Project Phoenix
Project Phoenix is a very unusual beast in a sense of new available mod "quest" content which brought some "love/hate" feelings in me. I will try to better explain why in this review.
So, first unofficial "red flag" for me was the lack of any reviews or impressions on this mod from other users. But after some time I decided that I still should try to play it to fullfil my goal with reviewing most of the forgotten Fallout 3 quest mods.
With this mod in your load-out of plugins you can expect several new decently crafted locations within underground (?) structure below Phoenix Diner. As I understand it, Project Phoenix was another ambitious Enclave project which should've worked as an underground city for US remnants personnel and everyone related to this "evil" organization.
Going from one section to another, you will encounter dozens upon dozens of Enclave soldiers, officers and scientists which you will need to eliminate in order to reach final destination of your "journey" in this mod - Phoenix. Be prepared and bring a lot of ammo/stimpaks/weapons because you will need it. It's not going to be an easy ride.
But also I should want every potential player who prefers (like me) to loot and open any available boxes, cabinets or lockers on the level. The desire to loot everything around you can make your time playing Project Phoenix a bit more tedious since there are a lot of storage rooms with hundreds of boxes and containers for your "looting addiction".
After putting to rest around 50-10 Enclave soldiers, you are going to meet (in my opinion) the most unexpected boss after visiting Phoenix City. In one of the last sequences of this facility you will face "Frank Horrigan" which looked and felt very similar to his previous Fallout 2 iteration. I didn't find any clue or hint about his presence in this facility, so some of you can consider this encounter non-canon or not very lore-friendly. Or maybe let's just say that it is just another super soldier named Frank Horrigan who tried to achieve the same level of respect and fame as the original one.
Even though main author of this mod stated that this mod is unfinished, from the technical side of things the available part of the mod content worked fine with very few hard sequences in which thousands of particles, dozens of npcs and chaotic fight can push game engine to the limit. Also some floating objects/containers here and there but nothing deal breaking in my opinion.
Should you try this mod in 2024? It's a hard question since the combat sequences were fun until all this chaos became very repetitive and "ordinary". But I can't deny great work which was put in designing main underground locations of Phoenix Project. So this time it's a 50/50 case, and you should give it a try if you just really need to test your new weapons in the entire Enclave army and won't expect any good story bits in the process of it. Not a hidden gem, but also not the bad mod in any sense.
No endorsement this time, but maybe someone (huh, maybe) will pick up this decent concept to improve and remake it into something more structured and polished.
