When comparing America's Army vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best free (No F2P!) games for PC?” FlightGear is ranked 17th while America's Army is ranked 72nd. 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 Works well on most hardware
This is not very a resource intensive game, meaning it should work just fine on lower end systems.
Pro Fantastic community
Great community will keep you coming back for more.
Pro Very good graphics
The game has pleasant and realistic graphics that should appeal to anyone looking for a real life army shooter.
Pro Easy to try
The game is free, meaning there is no cost to test the game in order to see how it performs or if the gameplay is appealing.
Pro Competitive at highest levels
Someone who's not good at this game won't be able to kill someone who knows how to play by luck.
It could happen ONCE with an across-the-map grenade but it is not like Call of Duty multiplayer where you end up killing someone eventually.
If you suck at this game or if these are your first match don't be surprised to have a 0-15 as K/D at the end of the match.
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 Uses Steam
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.