Key Takeaways
- Fan-made Fallout 2 remake Project Arroyo has shared concept art for Frank Horrigan.
- This power armour-wearing super mutant secret service member is one of the main villains in Fallout 2, and the final boss fight we face.
Fan-made Fallout 2 remake Project Arroyo has shared our first look at Frank Horrigan, the game’s main villain and final boss fight.
If you haven’t played Fallout 2 before, here’s Frank Horrigan summed up in just a few short words: super mutant secret service member in power armour. Sold? Sold.
As a member of the Enclave, i.e. the flailing remnants of the US government, he defends president Dick Richardson at an oil rig off the coast of San Francisco. But you can also find him killing elderly farmers and talking deathclaws. You can see the bruiser in all his glory below.
His design in Project Arroyo is incredibly faithful to the original, although artist Francesco Crobu uses a more contemporary super mutant frame as the team is remaking Fallout 2 within Fallout 4. That’s a huge leap considering the originals were isometric, turn-based cRPGs.
Project Arroyo’s Plans For Frank Horrigan
I sat down with Project Arroyo lead Damion Daponte earlier this year to talk about reimagining Fallout 2 in the style of the Bethesda games, and during that conversation, the Enclave head honcho of course came up. Specifically, how his boss fight will be updated all these years later.
“Frank Horrigan is going to be a tank,” Daponte told us. “I want to add a lot more versatility to him and make him have different stages. A good boss battle to look at for inspiration — we’re not gonna copy it — would be Adam Smasher in Cyberpunk 2077.”
In the original, you fight Horrigan in a wide-open room, which worked well for the classic, top-down gameplay, but in a modern shooter like Fallout 4, that doesn’t exactly translate. So, in Project Arroyo, the room won’t be nearly as empty.
The team is even considering destructible power armour so that we can see Frank Horrigan’s true form slowly spill out as the fight progresses.
It’s an ambitious vision, but given the passion behind this project, ambition is to be expected. And going by the concept art alone, it looks like Project Arroyo is due to do Horrigan justice.
