Strider Critic Reviews

A slick pastiche of ‘80s retro cool and modern gameplay, Strider is both faithful to its source material and still capable of finding its own identity. It’s basically the raddest Saturday-morning cartoon you’ll ever play.

An awesome "metroidvania" experience, long and compelling, focused on a fast paced action.

Whatever minor flaws Strider might have are very well hidden amongst exciting gameplay, great platforming, and epic boss battles.

Capcom revives one of its most hallowed franchises and conjures up one of the most rewarding side-scrolling slash-‘em-ups in recent memory. Loud, proud, and always a blast.

Strider returns victorious. Great boss fights, responsive controls, interesting level design... those are only some of the elements that make this side-scroller such a success.

Strider is a great reboot for old-school arcade junkies and at the same time a fresh action experience for newcomers to the franchise.

It pays homage to every facet of the franchise’s history with its gameplay, and the only way it could do more would be to include the past entries along with all of the older character designs as extras.

After 15 years, Strider comes back in excellent shape with a title that fans of the original, or just 2D action/platformer fans will love.

Double Helix has managed to capture what made the original game so much fun, while fleshing out the story in some very wacky ways. Unfortunately, too much of the game is spent indoors and there's a little too much backtracking, but Strider is a great start to what will hopefully be an ongoing series.

An update worthy of the source material. Old-school platforming worth jumping into

Strider is a great example of how you can reboot an old arcade game with modern sensibilities and still keep it true to its roots.

While his world is a little drab there’s still plenty to explore even after the job is done. Strider is fun, pure and simple, and serves as a fitting revival of a classic video game hero.

The Strider franchise rises in the XXI century, thanks to a game that will undoubtedly be one of the downloadables of 2014. Game development is inspired by the best Metroid and Castlevania bidimensional games, resulting in an essential one.

Inspiring and intriguing reset of one of the Capcom cult classics. Strider HD is a gorgeous game with frantic and appealing gameplay, tons of secrets and nice graphics. Enjoyable experience.

Strider is a great meaty throwback worth the $15 offer price.

Strider is admirably true to the game that Capcom released on arcades in 1989 and will delight those who still hold a candle for the original, with its unaltered core gameplay and polished production values. With these qualities on side, it's easy to overlook the game's shortcomings and deem it worthy of the Strider name.

Strider hits all the right notes and winds up being an experience not soon forgotten.

Strider successfully reinvents a classic. With its tight, super-fluid control, engaging and dynamic 2.5D presentation, and excellent balancing throughout, the game is destined to hook you from the outset.

The best compliment I can give Strider is that it is a game that will succeed on its own merits and not by comparison to the original.

Clocking in at around six hours with dozens of cyber unlockables hidden away waiting to be found and giant cyber bosses just begging to be cut down, this cyber ninja comes out slicing and dicing in his return to the proverbial cyber stage.