When comparing Waking Mars 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 Waking Mars is ranked 102nd. 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 Clever puzzles
The puzzle design in each level/room allows for clever thinking in order to solve. This makes for a fun game that is not too stressful.
Pro Great Story and design
A beautiful story about a return mission to mars that is complimented by the gorgeous artwork.
Pro Living ecosystem that can be interacted with
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 Tends to be easy
There is not too much difficulty in the game being that very few things can harm the player and even where there are they only harm so little it is not really a problem.
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.