* Encounter edge-of-your-seat tension - guards are everywhere;can you find the holes in
their security and break out to freedom? 

* Help or hindrance? Interact with 32 NPC friends, comrades and enemies. 

* A totally immersive and realistic experience as incredible artificial life technology governs
the behavior of every person in the camp. 

* Rich, tense soundtrack as environmental algorithms dynamically perform seamless
movie-style music that adjusts according to your situation. 

* Multiple POW prison camps including a complete and compelling recreation of the
unbreachable Colditz Castle itself.
 
 

Prisoner of War is a new kind of escape adventure. You’re Captain Lewis
Stone, a US pilot sent on reconnaissance in the midst of World War II, to
investigate strange goings-on in the POW camps of Europe. Shot down and
captured, you’re impounded in the very camp you were sent to observe. 

Where most games would have you blasting into action with all guns blazing
and unlimited resources at your disposal, Prisoner of War casts you as a
different kind of hero for a different kind of game. The challenge here,
whilst impounded at the mercy of Axis forces, is to use your skill, wits and
cunning rather than overwhelming firepower to defeat your enemy. 

In World War II these Luftwaffe-run camps were bound by the Geneva
Convention. In general, POW’s were relatively well treated; rations were
available and a degree of respect was shown. It is this realistic environment
which governs the game play of Prisoner of War. Stay within the rules and
you might make it through the war. Step out of line and you risk a German
bullet. Unfortunately, this just what you have to do. 

This makes Prisoner of War unlike any other game. It’s an engrossing
3rd-person action-adventure that doesn’t rely on huge explosions, or
blowing the enemy away, or racing around at breakneck speed. Instead the
player has to think their way out of their situation, hiding in the shadows,
disguising themselves, using items they have found or stolen and turning
the camp’s routine against itself. 

This is no easy task. Remember that as a POW, you are guarded night and
day by enemy soldiers that are no less intelligent than the player. If they
spot you doing something untoward, they will raise the alarm. If you’re in
the wrong place at the wrong time, you’ll probably spend some time in the
cooler. If they realise you’re trying to escape, you may well end up in the
hospital – after all, every single one of them is armed and has orders to
shoot escapees on sight. 

Against overwhelming odds and with deathonly a few yards away at all
times, a gung-ho approach just won’t work. Not only is overt action likely to
bring your mission to an abrupt end but, as your fellow prisoners are keen
to impress upon you, the possibility of retribution means there are more
lives at stake than just your own. 

If escape were the only objective, freedom might not seem such a distant
goal. However, Captain Stone will soon realise that there is an even greater
challenge ahead of him. The camps are the cover for a secret enemy
masterplan – the whole reason why they were so well guarded in the first
place. Not only is escape now a priority, but if the foe’s plans for a
war-winning super-weapon are not thwarted, then the tide of war could
turn fatally against the allies. 

It’s going to take every ounce of cunning you have to outwit the guards,
investigate, expose and if possible – sabotage, this terrifying threat in an
epic adventure which will take you from the shores of Europe to the heart
of Colditz Castle. Get home with your skin intact and prevent the course of
history being rewritten. 

Prisoner of War - a new kind of hero, with a new kind of challenge in a new
kind of game.