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Rock Band is out for iPhone and iPod Touch

Toy instruments dumped in favour of generic press-press-press action

As of right now and this very second, you may jump rather belatedly onto the exploding music game bandwagon, thanks to the iPhone version of Electronic Arts’ much-adored music sim.

Up on the App Store now for a medium-to-large price of £5.99, iPhone Rock Band has obviously seen a rather massive reworking for the handheld market. There are no plastic drums. No guitar. It doesn’t even use the microphone to let you sing along, and the only multiplayer options are conducted via the crude, last-generation Bluetooth system.

It has been stripped down and left broken, a bit like when Robbie Williams left Take That.

But if you do fancy a go on this barebones reimagination, that’s great - and particularly great for EA, which is selling additional music tracks for 99p each.

If you’re not into all the microtransaction business, the standard £5.99 package arrives with 20 tracks to play. And that 20 includes ‘The Ace of Spades’ by Motorhead and other popularist classics like ‘Sabotage’ by the Beastie Boys, ‘Hanging on the Telephone’ by Blondie and, er, some things by Blink 182 and the Foo Fighters.

Or, if you’d prefer not to pay any money at all, cheap clone Tap Tap Revenge does a very similar sort of thing - and early versions of that can be had for free, allowing you to literally rage against the EA machine.

[Thanks: http://www.t3.com/]