The Game Boy Advance likes to go fast. And it likes to go fast with style. That's what we've noticed some of the early videos and a few hands-on impressions of the Game Boy Advance's American offerings. And you know what? That's what we love about this little guy. Japanese gamers are getting treated to some of the most luscious and detailed RPGs done in sprites on the system, but everything American gamers have seen -- the Crawfish racing and FPS demo, the wild Mario Kart Advance, the maddeningly addictive Fortres -- our Game Boy Advance libraries are going to smoke in our hands.

Majesco's furious space shooter Iridion 3D is no different -- in fact, it's aiming to set the standard... Set the standard with a hail of bullets.

The second Majesco title to be announced for the Game Boy Advance , Iridoin 3D is one of the most stunning shown yet on the system. Featuring beautiful motion and an amazing 3D engine, Majesco says they're pushing the Game Boy Advance hard, hard, hard.

Paying homage to the memorable Commodore 64 game Uridium, Iridion 3D puts players in the boots of an interstellar prospector returning to Earth after time away... to find it overrun by the fearsome Iridion Empire. The bugs have invaded, and you're the only drifting hope for mankind. Your ship was never meant for such a war, but with the proper mechanical enhancements to create some wicked weapons, there just might be a hope for the Earth yet.

But first, you'll have to blow through seven enormous stages battling back to the heart of the Iridion Star System. Blazing across detailed environments like the festering seas of what once was the Pacific Ocean and the bio-maintained bowels of a space station's disposal tunnel, you'll have to take in the scenery by the mile as you fly by. The Iridion's vicious forces include gigantic robots, bio-mechanic worms, and legions of drone ships to obliterate. And with good measure paid to Starfox and other memorable space shooters, the boss battles promise to be uniquely terrifying experiences.

We've had a chance to see Iridion 3D in motion with an early, early video clip, but we're told that we haven't seen anything yet (and if these screens are any indication, we believe it). The game's motion was amazingly detailed in a corridor section, with walls that scrolled and scaled along as if they were polygons -- the game even animated a perspective correction for the columns dotting the walls so that they looked fully 3D. The one thing that wasn't seen in the video (and the reason why you won't be seeing that clip here) is that sense of speed we need -- just barely scratched in at 10% done when the video clip was put together as a demo for the game for publishers, Iridion 3D has come a long way since.

Being produced for Majesco by Pipe Dream Interactive in association with the game's original prodution team at Shin'en (who also designed the game's outstanding GAX sound system), Iridion 3D is the first of Majesco's titles to be confirmed for launch. An early look throttled us in our chairs. And if that's any indication, the final game may be something nuclear. We should have a hands-on impression tomorrow.

-IGN.com