Tap Tap Revenge 3 goes free
Also gains music from Motorhead, Depeche Mode, New Kids On The Block
Considering it was only 99c at launch, Tapulous' decision to make Tap Tap Revenge 3 a free, ad-supported game is hardly the most generous Christmas present ever.
For one thing, it's already been a huge success. The game has been #1 in the US paid chart for 30 days and the entire series to-date has been downloaded 20 million times (paid and free versions).
No, the real reason for the largesse is Tap Tap Revenge 3 has sold over one million in-app music songs.
Obviously getting the game onto more iDevices will, in the longterm, result in more paid music downloads.
Still, as well as making the game free, Tapulous has tweaked and added features.
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 say it's aware some people might be annoyed that they've spent 99c 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.
Oh, and the amount of premium music you can buy has been doubled too. New acts include:
Lily Allen, 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, George Thorogood, Keane, One Republic, Papa Roach, Rascal Flatts, Thievery Corporation, War, Lifehouse, Jimmy Eat World, The Temper Trap, Silversun Pickups, Rush, Motorhead, Lady Antebellum, Depeche Mode, Flyleaf, Duran Duran, Ingrid Michaelson, Schwayze, Steppenwolf, The Prodigy, Thriving Ivory, and New Kids On The Block.
