Complete with more than 50 downloadable content bundles.
iPhone developer Tapulous is set to release Tap Tap Revenge 3, the third incarnation of its hugely popular iPhone music game franchise.
Unlike the initial releases of its two predecessors, TTR3 costs $0.99 (£0.79) - a necessity due to Apple's rule that only paid apps can use its in-app payments feature.
That's the big news with Tapulous' new game: for the first time it lets players buy downloadable track packs, with nearly 50 available at launch in six-song ($2.99) and two-song ($0.99) bundles, and new packs due to be released every week.
Artists supplying six-track packs include Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, The Killers, No Doubt, Smashing Pumpkins and Tiesto, while the likes of Coldplay, Kaiser Chiefs, Lady GaGa and Snow Patrol are on board with two-song bundles.
"Over the last few months since Apple launched in-app commerce, there hasn't really been a successful implementation of the in-app commerce functionality," Tapulous' Andrew Lacy tells TUAW.
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"Here, what we've done in Tap Tap Revenge 3 is to build our own in-app store essentially, so this will be the first big test of in-app commerce at a much grander scale."
TTR 3 was beaten to this functionality by I-play's Hip Hop All Star, which was released last month, albeit with much less downloadable content available.
"In the console world, certainly Rock Band and Guitar Hero are moving towards this model, but the interesting thing about Tap Tap Revenge is that we see it as much less of a game and more of a music platform," says Lacy.
