Another world cup comes to an end, and this time Italy won the world cup, after a tie match (1-1) Italy beat France with a solid penalty shoot out score of 5-3.

Interesting stuff that happened in the match, the expulsion of Zinedine Zidane with a foul without ball against Marco Matterazzi, that was enough for Zidane to win a red card, kicking him out of the match.

An image that I won't forget easily is the sight of Zidane leaving the match walking down the stairs besides the world cup... sad.

After that, the match was doomed for France, up to that point the one time champion kept attacking fiercely the italian field, Buffon had a lot of work, but after the expulsion of Zidane, France fell on defense, and the rest of the match was on the defensive side.

The penalty shoot out was never the strong side of Italy, after all, in Italy 1990 the host lost in the semifinals on the penalty shoot out against Germany, also in USA 1994, Italy lost against Brazil 4-2 in the penalty shoot out, also France kicked Italy in quarter finals 4 years later.

Italy ran with luck this time arround, in the penaly shoot out, France wasted 2 chances of scoring, both of them were stopped by Buffon, meanwhile Barthez wasn't able to stop any of the strikes of the Italian team.

Italy was able to raise the world cup for the fourth time, it has passed 24 years since Dino Zoff raised it.

How is possible the FIFA allows such a lame victory from Italy against Australia.

Australia was a torment to Italy, never letting them advance, always stopping them, making a good defensive and offensive work, but on the 98th minute, disaster, Italy made a great job of acting, and the **** judge fells for it.

A penalty shot was fired by Totti, who was able to score the only goal for the match, leaving the match with the awful taste of a stolen victory (or victory by cheating)

On another dramatic match, Ukraine defeated Switzerland in the penalty series, by scoring 3 out of 4 goals, and the Swiss missing all of them.

The ironic taste of this match is that Switzerland has never lost a match and has never received a goal in official playtime.

Anyone else wants Brazil to be kicked from the world cup, after all, the match against Croatia was very boring, Brazil was not playing good, Croatia lost because a single mistake and now its paying the price.

I'd really like to see Australia winning the next match, after all, they managed to beat Japan by a good score (too bad that I couldn't see the match, neither tape it).

The first 3 qualified teams to the second round of the World Cup, who could have imagined that Ecuador would be able to kick Poland from the tournament, Germany had qualified with mixed reactions, and serious flaws on its defense.

The next is England, as usual, the team scores right before the end of the match, but now, the name of the fourth qualified team is in hiatus, Sweeden has 4 points and the chance of qualifying to the second round, Trinidad and Tobago has 1 point, but a chance of advancing to the next round (think about surprises).

The rest of the groups are still open for chances, I for one, I'm looking forward for Spain, who won with a solid victory against Ukraine (4 goals for Spain, 0 for Ukraine), also I'd like to see Croatia making it to the final, but after seeing how hard time they had against Brazil, its going to be hard for them, even to stay in the tournament.

My prediction for the second round with the teams that are already qualified are: Ecuador will be defeated by England, Sweeden will be defeated by Germany.

Which are your predictions?

After waiting for a good online FPS, I'm pretty pleased to know that a legendary game such as Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater came almost unnoticed with the upgraded version.

To be honest, I was specting for a low score such as Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (7,5, still a great upgrade upon the original, then still Konami didn't add too much to make a great difference), or at least an 8.

Now that I know that the game scored 9.0, I want to get that game, after all, this is the first online shooter-like game that scored so high in this page since SOCOM 3.

I don't know how to feel after buying Burnout Revenge, that game is amazing, but still I WANT SUBSISTIENCE

So, after I read all the updates, mails, forums and many of the stuff that appears on the net, it seems that Black is getting reviewed in a couple of hours.

Even tough the game seems great, comes rather cheaper than many other upcoming games, I still have cautious feelings about this game. For example, let's take Area 51: man, I couldn't wait to get that game, no matter what was the price, after all, the game also looked great, the online multiplayer modes looked really cool and the inclussion of a mutant mode and the voice acting from David Duchovny made look that this game would easily get a 8  or 9.

But the harsh reality came in, the game had a rather dull gameplay, cool graphics, rather poor voice acting and a somewhat strong online multiplayer mode.

I must had been talking to my folks about the game, because I got it for my birthday, it was a rather bittersweet experience, after all, I wanted that game, but at the same time, I knew that the game wasn't worth $50.

The same happened with Cold Winter, according to gamespot, the game was better than A51, but still, not by much, after all it only got a 7.5, for me that means that the game is good but you should proceed with extreme caution, to the last concept add the fact that I'm permanently under a tight budget, which means that I didn't buy the game.

Once again, another FPS and another hype: Darkwatch, according to many reviews, the game is good only as a single player game, because, the only multiplayer mode that the game has is offline, and is not too good.

Then other games came by: such as Rainbow six: lockdown, MOH european assault and many others, so I decided going for TimeSplitters: Future Perfect.

It wasn't a bad choice at all, an Ok single player campaign and tons of fun in multiplayer and online, the game was fun, but once you stop playing it, it takes a while to pick the game back up.

Now I'm waiting for Black, with both expectation and pesimism, because always I put my hopes high on a game it always gets low scores, but then again, the only 9.0 that the PS2 has on FPS is for Medal of Honor: Frontline, which doesn't have a multiplayer mode, but still, its an outstanding game to play

After a hardcore season of gaming, I wanted to play my real old games (I'm talking about the NES, abandon-ware and all that stuff), so I decided to search for my elder game systems.

Well, my lack of memory has attacked me once again, I forgot that I sold those game systems a long time ago, a very awful mistake!!!, after all, I wouldn't even dare to sell even my PS1, even if the games run in my PS2 (and most likely will run on a PS3). In any case, I was devastated, it was like revisiting that god awful incident once again, worst of all, I wanted to use the money to buy a SNES (which I didn't).

But the worst luck had my 2600, my mother made me gave it to the maid when I got the NES. In a first look you can say "well, you might not use that console anymore so the kids of the lady could play" and that's a nice thought, but some time later we found out that the ***** was stealing from us the whole time!!!, so much for charity huh?.

Now its almost impossible to get my old game collection back (not that I'm complaining about my present game collection, after all, having an average of 8.8 means that I must have some good games), so the other possible option is to download emulators and ROMS for that, but I guess is not the best idea, after all, is illegal, even though that the games are not found anywhere.

In any case, I'm playing some cool games now, such as Half Life on my PS2, and "No one lives forever 2", the game is funny as hell!!! (I know that hell is not funny, but the expression is the ideal), even if my luck on finding good classic games in their original language is a real pain in the neck, so I had to deal with the spanish version AGAIN!!!

Right now I decided to try another union, the "Survival horror union", this time, the leader is at least not that annoying, constantly sending you messages telling you "post now or die!!" (Ok, not the die part, but you get the idea), this time, the union is more focused on character battles, not that I like the idea too much, but it seems to be a better union.

First "Blog" post (or whatever the name is), the site looks great, not that it was bad before.

I had been playing this games that have been rahter interesting: call of duty, medal of honor: allied assault and return to castle wolfenstein, historical mood this time, as you can see.

Those games  had been a interesting experience (and not easy at all) but the genre can get old rather quickly

About that union thing, I quited, I found it uninteresting, or at least the one I was in, also, having a 13 year old kid constantly telling you to post is really boring 

Another entry on this journal, after a long absent time.

So far I was visiting this page in order to keep myself updated with information about games and stuff like that, it has been a good experience, but that was just about it. Well, I was downloading gaming footage and video reviews.

I was checking some messages when I found the "Medal of Honor union" invitation, to be honest, I have been invited to join some other times before, but none of the unions really cached my eye, after all, I didn't know what a union was about (and still I don't know what is the big fuzz about) so I decided to try it out.

The experience has been interesting, a place to talk about your games, what have you liked and what not, its interesting but still is too bad not knowing much about what a union is.

Its been a long time since I've posted in this journal, maybe because I haven't played at all, so I couldn't talk about my gaming experience, fortunately enough I've found a gap in my studies to play some of the best games I've ever played, it's interesting to see that all of them were first person shooters.

My father came back from a trip and he brought some great games, those games were:

For the PC: Halo, Half Life 2 (Counter Strike: Source included), Unreal Tournament 2004

For the PS2: Medal of Honor: Frontline, Extermination.

I've played all of them except Extermination, game that I'll be leaving for last, this is what I've got to say about them.

Half Life 2 was a challenging game, even on easy dificulty set, I loved every aspect of the game, the graphics, the voice acting, man, that game was quite fun, no wonder why that game got such high grades, too bad that my father could only find the spanish version, thing that can really downgrade a game, specially if it is spanish from spain (hearing the G-Man telling his monologue from the beginning of the game in that awful accent..., well, I won't give any more details, since most of the people loves it a lot, me included).

Half Life 2 has also its multiplayer part of course, those components are the well known CS:Source, and Half Life 2: Deathmatch, CS has been a great game since its origins (just a Half Life mod) and the adittion of the source engine, makes this a great game to be played, I had played this game for a long time back in college, but the main problem is that the cyber cafe can get quite expensive, but in there you can find tons of people who play this game and the matches are quite fun (think of it, there's about 20 people playing for each team, that implies that the cyber cafe has a powerful LAN server).

Half Life 2: Deathmatch its an interesting game to play, but it's too bad that you can't find much people who play this game online, but the premise is quite simple, a free for all deathmatch that features characters from Half Life 2 (mainly Combine Soldiers and Civilian rebels) with weapons that you can use in Half Life 2 and it features a "brand new" weapon that it is the electrical club from Civil protection (you know the kind of stuff that the combines keeps whacking you on early stages of the game).

Unreal Tournament 2004 its still a great multiplayer game with tons of game modes available, and unlike Half Life 2: Deathmatch, this game still has tons of people who play this game in every game mode available, my personal favorite its the good old Capture the flag and Invasion, but who's complaining about the rest of the game modes anyway, the only thing that I don't like too much its the fact that some people can be such a giant *** and keep trolling, insulting and being a complete *******, but you can always ignore that in order to enjoy your game to a maximum.

Halo its a great game, that features great graphics, interesting plot, and state of the art sound effects and music, it may have come some time ago, but I haven't been able to play this game until now that I've got it on PC (after all I don't have an XBox, and I'm not planning to get one anyway), this game fortunatelly came in its original language, thing that haven't ruined my expectations unlike the horrible translation from HL2.

Medal of Honor: Frontline may seem out of the league from the rest of the games that I've gotten so far, but still the graphics, the plot relation with the WW2, the controller display and the music made this game a great piece of collection, but right know I'm playing the other games, but still looking forward for this game in any case.