I played it first time when I was in elemental school, which means decades ago now, I can't recall really how exactly I get to know about game. So probably not long after game was released. As in our country we did not had internet by that time I guess I get it as any other game by that time, there was shops selling games as copied CDs.
I remembere I played it again some years later.
What I clearly remember is year 2018, I get to idea to play it again but I immediately searched more about game as I assumed it may be patched by community as lot of good old games, and I was not wrong. So I put some time to read about things I never bothered before, some game mechanics, how weapons and ammunition works actually for example, etc., and I would not return if I did not found Restoration Project. So as I recall I used RP, latest SFall at that moment, Miria mod, and some tweaks mods but I don't recall which exactly, but that was exactly what I needed, some expanded and improved content, it was nice.
Now I made new install and I'm looking which mods I will use but that is for another topic.