Prisoner of Ice

Description

Another game in Infogrames' line of H. P. Lovecraft inspired games started by Alone In the Dark, Prisoner of Ice puts you in the role of Lt. Ryan, an American agent stationed aboard the submarine H.M.S. Victoria on a rescue mission to the Antarctic. The Victoria picks up two mysterious crates during the course of the rescue. Before you know it the Captain is eaten alive by the cargo, a horrific monster with whom you are trapped aboard the submarine. And that's just the start of your problems.

Prisoner of Ice features a very simplified version of the classic adventure game interface, where you can left click with the cursor to operate an object or right click to look at it. The program won't let you do anything with these objects, other than the few appropriate actions needed to advance the game.

Alternate Titles

• "Gevangen in het ijs" -- Dutch title
• "Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice" -- International title

Part of the Following Groups

• H. P. Lovecraft games
• Literature-inspired games

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User Reviews

Do you wanna be a prisoner forever!? Set yourelf free!!	DOS	MAT (36840)
Decent mid-90s adventure game, but not without faults...	Windows	Apogee IV (2361)
Nazis, Norweigans with speech-problems and general weirdness.	DOS	Joakim Kihlman (267)
Decent story, but doesn't quite cut it as an adventure game.	DOS	Alan Chan (3712)

The Press Says

Coming Soon Magazine	DOS	Oct 31, 1995	94 out of 100	94
Joystick (French)	DOS	Jun, 1995	86 out of 100	86
Adventure Corner	Windows	Mar 04, 2008		80
Adventure Corner	DOS	Mar 04, 2008		80
High Score	DOS	Nov, 1995	4 out of 5	80
Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	Macintosh	May, 2002		80
Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	DOS	May, 2002		80
Just Adventure	Windows	Apr 26, 2007	B	75
Adventure Gamers	Windows	Jul 21, 2006		70
Quandary	DOS	Dec, 1995		60

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Question about "Prisoner of Ice" game play	3	Boston81 (75) Feb 25, 2009
Is there really Windows edition of a game?	11	Schadenfreude (578) Jul 20, 2007

Trivia

This game is the sequel to Shadow of the Comet, although the continuity won't be apparent until the last 1/4 of the game. Two major characters from the first game show up about that time, and there's even a brief cameo by Lord Boleskine himself.

Prisoner of Ice is loosely based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story "Mountains of Madness" where an American expedition to the Antartic uncovers horrible creatures entombed in slabs of ice as well as a massive lost city beneath the Antartic snow. The game takes place several years after the story during WW II with Nazis having established a secret research base over the site of the lost city.