13 Things You Didn't Know About Friday The 13th Part III

8. Friday The 13th: The Game's Richard Brooker Tribute

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With Friday the 13th: The Game sadly set to close its servers for good at the end of this year, many fans will be left disappointed to see such a great game essentially head off into the sunset.

Of course, it's franchise fave Kane Hodder - who played Jason Voorhees in four movies - that provided the mo-cap work for F13: The Game's Jason, but when it came to the Friday the 13th Part III's iteration of Voorhees, the folks at Gun Media and IllFonic took the chance to pay tribute to Richard Brooker.

Brooker played Jason in Friday the 13th Part III, and he sadly passed away in 2013 at the age of just 58. As an homage to the actor, his likeness was used for the unmasked version of Part III's Jason in Friday the 13th: The Game.

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