Unnamed 2012 game

This was a game originally started in 2012, likely around november or after (based off the time the official PvZ account on facebook posted concept art.)

It seems to originally have been a shooter game, with the maps looking cartoonish and concept art of shotguns styled like the Cattail, and a plant that seemed to be Meelee (which seems like an onion with a bandaid on their head.)

It originally did not make it past the prototype stage, there at some point was footage of this prototype but it was taken down by Popcap Shanghai before it could be archived and documented.

A while after this, Popcap made PvZ:GW1, its very likely this prototype videogame was just meant as a test to see what they wanted a PvZ 3d shooter to look like, and this is the earliest concept we have of popcaps idea.

The concept art was pitched to Popcap Shanghai by American McGee, it also was apparently meant to be free to play and microtransaction driven, and apparently the game was only gonna be in asia.