I didn't vote in the above poll as personally I like certain aspects from each game.
For COD - the lighting and sky (way ahead here),
the cockpits,
the clouds (limited variety and no weather variation to speak of but the basic appearance is better for me in COD),
the sea/water (though awaiting ROF's revamped water coming with the new Channel map)
For ROF - the land terrain (personal opinion - I just could never warm to COD's terrain mainly because of the colour balance and the haphazard trees. IT's a strange one - I recognise COD's technical superiority but my gut just screams NO...! ROF isn't perfect, but it just sits with me better, but then I prefer some of the il-2 maps to COD as well!),
AA - makes a difference (at least on my 1680x1050 screen)
The view control system - very nice, easily controlled and functional.
Weather - flying through a rain storm in ROF with the water pouring off your goggles. Also flying through heavy cloud formations - sometimes spectacular looking in ROF.
I think it's pretty much a tie on smoke and flame effects and explosions.
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