When comparing The Dark Mod vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best free full offline games for PC that have good graphics?” FlightGear is ranked 7th while The Dark Mod is ranked 13th. 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 Free to all
The game is a community remake of the game Thief, not in terms of story, characters, or levels, but in terms of mechanics. Originally it was created as a mod for Doom 3, but has since been remade with original assets in order to have no liability, though it still uses the same mission. This means the game is free and will stay free. Players can download dozens of additional missions at no additional charge.
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 Oldish graphics
Although efforts are being done to keep it nice, The Dark Mod runs on an engine from 2004 and definitely looks dated compared to modern games.
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.