Excalibur 2555 AD is an action-adventure game developed by Tempest Software and published by Telestar Electronic Studios in Europe and Sir-Tech in North America for the PlayStation in 1997 and ported to Windows by Fish (UK) later that year.
Excalibur 2555 AD plays similarly to Pax Corpus, in that players roam through fully 3D environments with a female character in a futuristic setting, and collect items which can be saved for later use.
[12] However, critics also overwhelmingly thought Excalibur 2555 A.D. fell far short of that acclaimed game, and GameSpot and Next Generation went so far as to state that the gameplay is too fundamentally different from Tomb Raider to justify any comparison at all.
[15][17][21] GamePro gave it a 3 out of 5 for graphics and 1.5 in every other category (sound, control, and fun factor), commenting, "The puzzle elements are bland and clichéd, while the battle system is complete trash: You stand toe-to-toe with your foes ... trading blows at a ridiculously slow pace, while awful techno tunes try to keep your blood pumping.
[14][15] By contrast, Crispin Boyer of Electronic Gaming Monthly judged that "The graphics are pretty sharp - if not overly colorful - and the voice acting ain't bad either.