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When comparing Open Arena 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 Open Arena is ranked 35th. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Specs
Graphic design3D
Licenseopen source
MultiplayerYes
PlatformsWindows, macOS, UNIX-like, Android
PvEno
Co-OpYes (teams)
Game engineid Tech 3
GenreFirst person shooter, Arena
PvPYes
SingleplayerYes (bots)
Graphic design3D
Licenseopen source
MultiplayerYes
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi, FreeBSD, others
PvEno
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Pros
Pro Free and open source
Pro Cross-platform
Mac, Linux, and Win. And even Android.
Can run in webbrowser as shown on openarena.live
Pro Community works
Pro Runs nice on very old computers
Pro Active clan scene
Pro Active in development
Pro Very enthusiastic developers and players
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
No cons yet!
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.