Topic: Matt Hooper

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Halloween is lurking just around the corner. Somehow the lethal arachnid finds its way to property owned by the newly hired Doc to town, Ross Jennings (Jeff Daniels), who is, yep, deathly afraid of spiders. The supposed retired old Doc, Sam Metcalf ...

Jaws

When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.. Scheider as Chief Brody is the primary focus, and is the audience's ...
It's been widely acknowledged that the John Williams score for the Steven Spielberg film Jaws was a big contributor to the success of the movie. On a Summer morning, Brody is called to the beach, where the mangled body of Summer ...
Beer, sun, and naked honeys making out under water" is what director Alexandra Aja promises, and gleefully delivers, with "Piranha 3D." He doesn't ...
It's really easy to look at Rage, and think, " In the past, design director Matt Hooper has compared your car in Rage to Epona the horse in Zelda. But during a 45-minute demo (with commentary from both Hooper and creative director ...

In a Shark's Tooth, a New Family Tree

" That is how a shark expert, Matt Hooper, described Carcharodon megalodon to the police chief in Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws. Hooper had just gotten his first glimpse of the massive great white shark that was terrorizing the residents of Amity Island ...
One of the major criticism's lobbed at Doom 3 was its reliance on a "monster closet" system for spawning enemies into a level when trigger points were reached. It may have provided for plenty of frights on the first play through ...

Rage First-Look Preview

Launching a new IP is a nerve-wracking experience for any developer. After two years, two trailers, and even some confusion about the game's genre, id finally pulls back the curtain on its multi-platform post-apocalyptic shooter, Rage, and shows a live demo ...

You're Going To Need A Bigger Boat

No, that's not the most common sales pitch heard at the local marina, it's a line from one of my favorite movies, Jaws.. In the movie, Chief Brody, Matt Hooper, and Quint embark upon the fishing trip from sheol. The ...
If you've been following id Software, you know that one of the big features of id Tech 5 -- the engine being used to create id's next game, Rage -- is something called " Thursday's GDC panel with Lead Designer Matt Hooper ...