NBA Live is so much better than the other two, it's not even close. 2K9 looks nice, but they don't look like the players and are a little too angular. NBA 09 is just horrible, look absolutely nothing like the players.
Great list, but I would have to disagree about Guild Wars and Rome: Total War. Even on minimum settings, both games barely (and sometimes wouldn't at all) run on my 2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, Inspiron 5100 laptop. They work amazingly well on my Alienware laptop however, so no real harm done.
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