When comparing OpenTyrian vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” FlightGear is ranked 4th while OpenTyrian is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Specs
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Pros
Pro There's a lot of weapons and levels
Pro You can play it as a single player or 2-player co-op on the same machine
Pro Classic Starship game with amazing graphics even today
It's a game that's over 20 years old but it still has amazing graphics for a 2D game.
Pro More cross-platform than anything (except Doom)
Has been ported to so many platforms that it even can be found on your phone!
Pro Worldwide scenery
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Pro Free and Open Source
All code written for FlightGear is opensource and available for anyone to use.
Pro Crash animations in some aircrafts
Pro It has world-wide multiplayer
Pro Live cockpit
Pro A lot of aircrafts to add
Pro It has amazing graphics
Pro You can almost recreate real incidents
Pro No bugs
Cons
Con Not as graphically advanced as commercial competition
Con Getting stuck upside down
After a crash a pilot may be stuck in an upside down position with no way to recover.