When comparing Torus-Trooper 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 Torus-Trooper is ranked 122nd. 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 Time based gameplay
Instead of having lives, you have a score in the top left corner. For each thing that hits you, your time gets decreased (when it hits 0 you die). When you shoot things though, it adds a bit of time.
Pro Interesting game mechanics based off speed
The faster you go, the more difficult the game becomes...but at the same time the more effective your bullets are (they spread out more, hitting more enemies). Alternatively, you can also slow down which charges your shield, which you can then release to destroy anything in its path.
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.