Prisoner of Ice

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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.

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Alternate Titles

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

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: Multiple endings
• Games made into comics
• Inspiration: Author - H. P. Lovecraft
• Inspiration: Literature
• Setting: Interwar

User Reviews

Do you wanna be a prisoner forever!? Set yourelf free!!	DOS	MAT (194488)
Decent mid-90s adventure game, but not without faults...	Windows	Apogee IV (2329)
Nazis, Norweigans with speech-problems and general weirdness.	DOS	Joakim Kihlman (275)
Decent story, but doesn't quite cut it as an adventure game.	DOS	Alan Chan (3618)

Critic Reviews

Gameplay (Benelux)	DOS	Aug, 1995	88 out of 100	88
Joystick (French)	DOS	Jun, 1995	86 out of 100	86
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Jun, 1995	85 out of 100	85
Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	DOS	May, 2002		80
Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	Macintosh	May, 2002		80
Adventure Corner	Windows	Mar 04, 2008		80
PC Joker	DOS	Jun, 1995	80 out of 100	80
PC Hemma	DOS	Feb, 1996		80
PC Multimedia & Entertainment	DOS	Jan 25, 1996	76 out of 100	76
Mac Ledge	Macintosh	Oct 15, 1996	4.8 out of 10	48

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Question about "Prisoner of Ice" game play	3	BostonGeorge (788) Feb 25, 2009
Is there really Windows edition of a game?	11	Dr. M. "Schadenfreude" Von Katze (589) Jul 20, 2007

Trivia

Concerning the three graphic novels published by Vents d'Ouest and mentioned in another trivia item: they were actually part of an experiment to expand the storyline of the games through comic books. Each volume chronicles the story of a particular character and sheds light on the back-story of the video game.

La Geôle de Pandore (Pandora's Jail) tells the tale of Jorge, the head librarian of Buenos Aires. For players of the game, this is probably the most important of the three books as it relates the final fate of the villain of the game, Ernst Dietrich (which was left open after the game's ending).

Le Glaive du Crépuscule (The Dagger in the Dusk) is about the past of Sears and gives more depth to his role in the storyline.

And last but not least, la Cité des Abîmes (City of the Depths) tells the story of the explorer Bjorn Hamsun and his father, and their discovery of the City of the Old Ones in Antartica. It is also directly linked to the H. P. Lovecraft short story At the Mountains of Madness.

Related Web Sites

• Hints for Prisoner of Ice (If you are stuck in POI, these hints will get you going again.)