When comparing rRootage vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best games on Linux?” FlightGear is ranked 23rd while rRootage is ranked 121st. 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 Great visual design
The dark background behind bright neon colors makes for a really interesting looking game.
Pro 4 different modes offer a variety of ways to play
While the 4 game modes aren't necessarily original ideas (they seem to be inspired by other games), when compiled under a single title with the great simplistic bright graphics they feel right at home. All of the modes share 1 thing in common: you do more damage to the boss the closer you are to it.
Normal mode acts like like vertical scrolling shooters: avoid the incoming fire, and get a few hits on the boss to damage it.
PSY mode rewards you for your sense of adventure - you build up power by having enemy fire close to your ship (within a white ring).
IKA mode has two colors of bullets - red and blue. You can swap between red and blue at any time, and you reflect bullets that share a color with you.
GW mode gives you a temporary shield on a cooldown that you can use to reflect bullets back at the boss.
Some of these modes are very interesting, and they reward you for being close to danger, and using enemy fire to your advantage.
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.