Dated!? Are you kidding me? Graphics is one of LOMAC's strongest selling points in addition to its immersion, flight dynamics, damage models, modeling, and systems (to those not coming from F4).
LOMAC graphics are still the best out there for any combat simulator, and still any flight simulator at all, other than FSX. LOMAC's engine never stops to amaze me, and when I'm up there patrolling the Crimean skies, I can't help but to watch the beautifully rendered sunset, self-shaddowing, canopy scratches, and water reflections. LOMAC still has effects no other sim has, such as heat blur and sun glinting through overcast.