


From what we understand based on that, 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, as well as spoken to multiple sources familiar with its development. In the case of Project Hot Tub, IGN understands it was shut down to extend more resources to Visceral’s Star Wars project…which was itself canceled not long after. It hadn’t run into any major budget issues, deadline misses, scope problems, or other obvious roadblocks that indicated it was in trouble.īut sometimes even promising projects are dropped for unexpected reasons.

In fact, everything we know about Project Hot Tub indicates that its ideas, development, and progression were going strong right up until its cancellation. But it’s not necessarily because the project was in trouble. Project Hot Tub was internally planned for a late 2017 release. The project represented a major leap for a franchise previously confined to tower defense and third-person shooters, and would potentially stretch some new muscles for publisher EA, whose category of family-friendly, single-player adventures was sorely lacking.
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Zombies series to fight off zombie foes across multiple historical eras. Project Hot Tub featured a pair of teenage sibling leads who were thrown back in time by a zombie-corrupted experiment, teaming up with familiar plants from the Plants vs. It was to be an action-adventure game with the ‘open corridor’ progression of an Uncharted, the combat of something like Batman: Arkham Knight, but the family-friendly vibes of a Ratchet and Clank. It was called Project Hot Tub, a humorous but vague reference to 2010 film Hot Tub Time Machine.
