In case you missed it last week, Tapulous‘ Tap Tap Revenge 3 iPhone app became a FREE app (down from $0.99). It’s still free and Tapulous has doubled the number of Premium music that you can pay, download, and play. Some good stuff too! And they’ll be adding more music too! What’s also good is that all Premium tracks have their own theme.

Here’s a list of the new Premium artists/bands that you can get:
Duran Duran, Motorhead, Lily Allen, Depeche Mode, Papa Roach, George Thorogood, Sublime, The Hives, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Elton John, David Guetta, LCD Soundsystem, Steve Miller Band, Ok Go!, Jackson 5, Spoon, Dashboard Confessional, Smash Mouth, Wolfmother, Evanescence, 30 Seconds To Mars, Fat Boy Slim, Keane, One Republic, Rascal Flatts, Thievery Corporation, War, Lifehouse, Jimmy Eat World, The Temper Trap, Silversun Pickups, Rush, Lady Antebellum, Flyleaf, Ingrid Michaelson, Schwayze, Steppenwolf, The Prodigy, Thriving Ivory, and New Kids On The Block.

Also, there’s a new system of achieving levels, in which you unlock awards, weapons, and music, and online features have been added including new weapons, shields and radar. There are still weapon-free rooms for those purists who just want to do skills-based online games.

Achievements have been enhanced with more challenging options rewarded with better prizes. You can also redeem coins in the store for avatar gear, weapons and music.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of new music has been added, including special channels for labels such as Big Sounds International, Black Hole Recordings, Bug Music, Downtown Records, Fearless Music, Nettwerk Records, Quango Records, Rocket Science, Ultra Records. You can download ten tracks for each of those labels, and play in their online rooms.

Tapulous says that they’re aware some people might be annoyed that they’ve spent $0.99 on what’s now a free game however and so it’s handing out special avatars to those players who’ve paid for the game. And it points out such users will be protected from the majority of the in-app ads that the players of the free app will view.

Here is Tapulous’ blog post on this topic.

Info from PocketGamer.co.uk

                          

It was announced (late) yesterday that on TechCrunch that Tap Tap Revenge 3 was coming. Around 4pm EDT today, they retweeted an update to the original story stating that TTR3 was out. And it is. You might be shocked to find out that TTR3, unlike TTR1 & 2, is $0.99 in the App Store. But wait! There’s more! You can BUY a bundle of 6 tracks or 2 tracks form your favorite artist. This is “premium” content. I was a bit happy about this because they had a 2-track bundle of one of my favorite bands, Social Distortion (Far Behind & Story of My Life). I wished it was a 6-track bundle, but at least they’re there with a 2-track one. Which makes me think back to a few months ago when I suggested that Tapulous (makers of the Tap Tap Revenge group of iPhone games) make a version for Social Distortion. If only they would. Other bands include Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, No Doubt, Tiesto, The Killers, Korn, Megadeth, QOTSA, Weezer, AAR, AFI, Keith Urban, Crystal Method, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. A 6-track bundle will cost you $2.99 and a 2-track bundle will hit your wallet for only $0.99. Not too bad. But wait! There’s even more! Don’t fret – there are over 130 FREE tracks that you can download too!

What else is in TTR3?

I’ve only played TTR3 a few times. I’ll get back to you for a possible review later. Get your own copy of it from the App Store!