Maybe, maybe not. But it does make for a great starting scenario for a group of RPGers. 2-6 team members, equipped for mayhem and murder-hoboism.
But, part of what this board, and other discussion fora (forums?) do is to think out what if?
- How would something like MP work?
- Can we make sense of the canonical material?
- How would we change it for our own game groups?
- What should we do to update it?
And personally one of the parts of MP that I enjoy is the gedankenexperiment of how does your player group handle the setup and presumptions about their mission and expected timeline for its execution vs. the actual situation 150 years post bellum.
Can they help? Can they stick to the Project core missions of reconnaissance, assessment, and assistance? Or will they sink into barbarity?