As far as we know, Project Hot Tub was a passion project, made by a group of people who loved the Plants vs. IGN has viewed and verified a number of internal visual and written materials related to Project Hot Tub., and has spoken to multiple sources familiar with its development.
In the case of Project Hot Tub, IGN understands that it was closed to allocate more resources to Visceral’s Star Wars project…which itself was canceled shortly after. He hadn’t had budget problems, no deadlines, no scope, or other obvious obstacles to indicate he was in trouble.īut sometimes even the most promising projects are abandoned for unexpected reasons. In fact, everything we know about Project Hot Tub indicates that its ideas, its development and its progression went from strength to strength until its cancellation. But it is not necessarily because the project had problems. Project Hot Tub was internally planned for a late 2017 release.
The project represented a huge leap for a franchise that until then had been limited to tower defense games and third-person shooters, and could help EA gain muscle, as its single-player family adventure category was very popular. Zombies to fight zombie enemies in multiple historical eras. Project Hot Tub featured a pair of teenage brothers thrown back in time by a zombie corruption experiment, teaming up with familiar plants from the Plants vs. It was going to be an action-adventure game with the “open corridor” progression of an Uncharted, the Batman: Arkham Knight-style combat, but the familiar vibes of a Ratchet & Clank. It was called Project Hot Tub, a humorous but vague reference to the 2010 film Hot Tub Time Machine. Although they had the approval of EA for their work until that moment, it was not a guarantee that the project would end up seeing the light, especially because of how ambitious it was. zombies that would take the saga in a very different direction. Zombies.įor the past year, they had been working on a new Plants vs.
In the latter half of 2016, a small team of developers at PopCap Vancouver were preparing for a presentation that would determine the future of their team, their project, and potentially an already much-loved franchise: Plants vs.
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