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 (140368)
Decent mid-90s adventure game, but not without faults...	Windows	Apogee IV (2331)
Nazis, Norweigans with speech-problems and general weirdness.	DOS	Joakim Kihlman (269)
Decent story, but doesn't quite cut it as an adventure game.	DOS	Alan Chan (3479)

Critic Reviews

Joystick (French)	DOS	Jun, 1995	86 out of 100	86
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Jun, 1995	85 out of 100	85
PC Joker	DOS	Jun, 1995	80 out of 100	80
Just Adventure	Windows	Apr 26, 2007	B	75
Adventure Gamers	DOS	Jul 21, 2006		70
Jeuxvideo.com	DOS	May 05, 2011	14 out of 20	70
Game Zero	Windows	1995	17.25 out of 25	69
Game Revolution	Macintosh	Jun 05, 2004	B-	67
Mac Ledge	Macintosh	Oct 15, 1996	4.8 out of 10	48
Mac Gamer	Macintosh	1995	48 out of 100	48

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Question about "Prisoner of Ice" game play	3	BostonGeorge (682) Feb 25, 2009
Is there really Windows edition of a game?	11	Dr. M. "Schadenfreude" Von Katze (580) Jul 20, 2007

Trivia

As you use the computer terminal in the future, you see a cut-scene which is narrated by a "Howard Phillips Parker." This character not only bares the same name as Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the author responsible for the Cthulhu stories, but also looks conspicuously like him.

Related Web Sites

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