Prisoner of War is a game with a truly terrific idea. It’s just scuttled by mediocre execution it could have been better
User Rating: 7.5 | Prisoner of War PC
.The problem is that, when it comes to using all of these fun abilities to accomplish your mission objectives, the game is extremely unforgiving. In a given mission you may have to figure out how to get from HERE to THERE, and you begin attempting different plans of action. Sneak behind this hut. Crawl under this building. Crouch behind this gas tank. You know, standard P.O.W. movie stuff. Much has been made in other reviews of the unrealistic obliviousness of the guards, and that can be true. But despite this, missions tend to fail over and over again as you attempt to figure out how exactly the game wants you to solve a problem. The game is also inconsistent – “Okay, I can stand here now and no one sees me, even though there’s a guard five feet away . . . but if I stand HERE I get caught immediately.” Unlike other good stealth games, you never really know where you stand, and this leads to much player frustration.
