First look: Fire Eaters: Zero Bandits

Dutch developer Formula, a division of Lost Boys Games, is currently working on a beat-'em-up named Fire Eaters: Zero Bandits for the Game Boy Advance. In the game, players will go on a quest to fight for lost pages of the Book of Zero. When completed, this book will reward the holder with incredible powers. The choice of characters will determine the players' motives for gaining possession of the book. Like Lionhead Studio's Black & White, the game lets players choose between good and evil. Players can decide whether they want to use the book's powers to take over the world or whether they will be heroic and fight to prevent the book falling into the wrong hands.

There will be 11 playable characters with different moves and combos, 11 environments, animated backgrounds, multilayer parallax scrolling, and multiplayer support.

Fire Eaters: Zero Bandits should be released for the GBA in Europe in the fall, and a publisher for the game will be announced in the next few months. A US release has yet to be confirmed.