Prisoner of Ice

Prisoner of Ice is one published in 1995 for MS -DOS adventure game from Infogrames, which is based on HP Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu Mythos based.

Action

Januar 1937. The young Lieutenant Ryan was aboard the British submarine HMS Victoria, with the mission to deliver two previously seized by the Nazis boxes. On the way to the destination, the submarine is attacked by a German destroyer. A fire, which was sparked by the attack on board, includes one of the boxes and thus thaw a frozen before being who sees the crew members as enemies. Ryan it to include the essence and send out a distress call succeeds. Back on dry land, the protagonist makes to find out what the Nazis and the nature of the compounds. This leads him his way to the Falkland Islands, Buenos Aires, Germany, and ultimately into the familiar from the novels town of Innsmouth ( here Illsmouth ).

Console implementation

Exclusively in the Japanese language area appeared in 1997 for PlayStation as well as implementations for Sega Saturn.

Trivia

• Prisoner of Ice is the sequel to the 1993, also made ​​by Infogrames, erschienenem Adventure Shadow of the Comet.
• The game can either be in VGA ( 320x200 resolution ) or SVGA mode ( 640x480 resolution ) to be played.
• The introduction movie you can use as a screen saver.
• All backgrounds were hand drawn and then scanned. For the movements of the game characters motion capture method was used.