DraQ
Arcane
UT'99 can also be used as platform for playing most Unreal content (both original and custom) as the code and basic resources (sounds, textures, models) are already included, you just need maps, music and small mod to access the already present SP code.Like DraQ outlined, Unreal is still enchanting and fun. A lot of talented mapmakers and composers contributed to it, each with their own style, so it feels all over the place, but that variety is to its benefit. It also has a strangeness you don't get often in computer games. UT1999 is also tremendously enjoyable as a multiplayer game, even with bots.
Indeed, VA is most definitely not 10/10, it's more like -10/10, there is even mod replacing all of it with blank sound files.It's a far better idea to play the better fanmade campaigns, like Operation: Na Pali.
I know, I know, that voice acting wasn't exactly 10/10. The rest, though, is mostly solid gold.
Other than that ONP is p. good. Arcadey and somewhat lacking in atmosphere, but entertainingly crazy (in an old shooter sense) and top-notch technically - pretty long too. Also features one of the best credits sequences ever.
Though TBH, I prefer some other packs - Tower of Shrakitha (old, not very long, but masterful in terms of overall quality and atmosphere), Deja Vu (a pretty conservative pack, basically more Unreal, but far superior to official RTNP in all aspects) and Xidia series (Xidia, Na Pali Haven: Redux, Seven Bullets). There are some good newer packs too.
All can be found at http://www.unrealsp.org/ , along with reviews.
The reviews themselves are very strict and rigorous - Deja Vu, which isn't far from the original in terms of overall quality is rated 70% (Tower, despite its age is one of the two mappacks that reached 90%).
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