When comparing Red Eclipse 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 Red Eclipse is ranked 36th. 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 Advanced movement options
There are a lot of ways to move around the map, like sliding, wall-runs, and wall-jumps. Stamina meter keeps this mechanic from being overused and rewards clever usage.
Pro Massive amounts of weapons
Each weapon has two modes of operation and a lot of different strategies for each of them.
Pro Version 2.0 under development
2.0 is currently available to play. This reworks the game onto a better engine and will only get better as the community works on it.
Pro Win, Linux, BSD, Mac
Versions for all major platforms.
Pro Cooperative map creation
Players can create maps together, and there are servers dedicated to that, but beware: some people love to destroy what others try to build.
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 No way to create campaigns or strategic maps
For example, it's not possible to create a map where a team must accomplish goals to win the round against the other team.
Con No solo mode and humans vs AI is very limited
Solo mode is just fighting against bots, humans vs AI is only balanced with a ratio: by default, 2 humans = 3 bots.
Con Empty servers
It's really hard to find anybody playing this game, which is a shame.
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.