Ice and Fire (PC)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 2.5 stars OK
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 5.0 (2.5 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Hugo Foster
• Reviewed on: 05/01/1996
• Updated on: 06/15/2004
• Released on: 12/31/1995
• Originally published on GameSpot: Ice and Fire (PC) Review

Challenge your patience as well as your ability to wander around a virtual world for long periods of time. You are the final reviewer. Review a game which sends you on a hopeless mission into tedium and annoyance. Equipped only with an unresponsive control system, explore the increasingly complex mazes while battling the same life forms over and over. Irritated. Bored. Unlock the mystery inside the crystals, then use the passwords contained therein to assure that you never have to face the shell maze ever again.

Promoted as the thinking person's Doom clone, Ice and Fire thrusts you into one maze world after another, forcing you to battle alien enemies as you explore each level, looking to free your cryogenically frozen compatriots. Unfortunately, the result, as it is with so many maze games, is that you finish all the action and are left looking around for that one last key that will get you to the next level--which you can't seem to find. Level access is controlled by passwords found on earlier levels, so, until you find them, you are stuck.

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