While sporting the best career mode to date in any sports game, NBA2k12's main feature is the classic teams you can play as. If you're like me you stopped watching basketball for the most part when Michael Jordan retired, and your favorite players are people like Larry Bird or Dr. J. The Dream Team was the most dominant team in any sport. You can play as these guys with their FULL vintage rosters and unlike ever before play as some of the greatest NBA teams. Jordan, Bird, Magic, Stockton, Malone, Dr. J, Clyde the Glyde lead just a few of the many awesome teams you can play in this game.
You'll need to adjust your game if you're used to previous sports games. Wild and sometimes good passes will constantly get picked off, you'll lose control of the ball if you turbo near opponents, and sometimes throw your controller at the wall - but once you get the hang of it you'll find youself playing some very entertaining basketball games.

The latest installment of the Civ series. A bit more streamlined than its predecssor's Civ V offers some new twists on the same fun game. Unfortunately, there are fewer optios in multiplayer currently than Civ 4, Civ 5 offers infinite replay value when you try to take over the world with (or against) your friends.
If you're into playing grand strategy board games with your friends for hours on end, then this is the video game for you.

If you're into Total War, Risk, or America, then this is the game for you. Play a campaign map spanning the "known world" during the years surrounding America's indepedence, with option to play as any faction in America, Europe, or India.
Build your army and formulate your strategy in the turn based campaign map, then test your mettle in combat in the RTS featuring gunpowder, melee, calvary, and cannon artillery units.
Navigate your way through diplomacy with other Nations, research tech, and trade. If you do everything right, you may find your self controlling the greatest empire the world has ever known.